STILL LIFE: ADVENTURES IN TAXIDERMY. By Melissa Milgrom.
2010 1st edition. 8vo (141 x 216mm). Ppxii,285. B/w frontispiece photograph. Two-tone brown boards, spine titled in gilt.
Taxidermy "is a thriving world full of intrepid hunter-explorers, eccentric naturalists and gifted museum artisans, all devoted to the paradoxical pursuit of creating the illusion of life. Into this subculture ventures journalist Melissa Milgrom, whose quest to understand its fascination takes her from the family workshop of the last chief taxidermist for the American Museum of Natural History to the studio where an English sculptor preserves animals for Damien Hirst's most disturbing works". And much else besides.
Taxidermy "is a thriving world full of intrepid hunter-explorers, eccentric naturalists and gifted museum artisans, all devoted to the paradoxical pursuit of creating the illusion of life. Into this subculture ventures journalist Melissa Milgrom, whose quest to understand its fascination takes her from the family workshop of the last chief taxidermist for the American Museum of Natural History to the studio where an English sculptor preserves animals for Damien Hirst's most disturbing works". And much else besides.
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36484
| Author | Milgrom (Melissa). |
|---|---|
| Book Code | 36484 |
| ISBN | 061840547X / 9780618405473. |
| Book Description | Good-plus in like dust-wrapper. |
| Book Cover | Hardcover |
| Published Date | 2010 |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. |
| Place | Boston and New York. |