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Author | : Caroline Grigson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2016-01-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0191024112 |
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Menagerie is the story of the panoply of exotic animals that were brought into Britain from time immemorial until the foundation of the London Zoo — a tale replete with the extravagant, the eccentric, and — on occasion — the downright bizarre. From Henry III's elephant at the Tower, to George IV's love affair with Britain's first giraffe and Lady Castlereagh's recalcitrant ostriches, Caroline Grigson's tour through the centuries amounts to the first detailed history of exotic animals in Britain. On the way we encounter a host of fascinating and outlandish creatures, including the first peacocks and popinjays, Thomas More's monkey, James I's cassowaries in St James's Park, and Lord Clive's zebra — which refused to mate with a donkey, until the donkey was painted with stripes. But this is not just the story of the animals themselves. It also the story of all those who came into contact with them: the people who owned them, the merchants who bought and sold them, the seamen who carried them to our shores, the naturalists who wrote about them, the artists who painted them, the itinerant showmen who worked with them, the collectors who collected them. And last but not least, it is about all those who simply came to see and wonder at them, from kings, queens, and nobles to ordinary men, women, and children, often impelled by no more than simple curiosity and a craving for novelty.
Author | : Peta Tait |
Publisher | : Sydney University Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2016-08-10 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1743324308 |
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Throughout the 19th century animals were integrated into staged scenarios of confrontation, ranging from lion acts in small cages to large-scale re-enactments of war. Initially presenting a handful of exotic animals, travelling menageries grew to contain multiple species in their thousands. These 19th-century menageries entrenched beliefs about the human right to exploit nature through war-like practices against other animal species. Animal shows became a stimulus for antisocial behaviour as locals taunted animals, caused fights, and even turned into violent mobs. Human societal problems were difficult to separate from issues of cruelty to animals. Apart from reflecting human capacity for fighting and aggression, and the belief in human dominance over nature, these animal performances also echoed cultural fascination with conflict, war and colonial expansion, as the grand spectacles of imperial power reinforced state authority and enhanced public displays of nationhood and nationalistic evocations of colonial empires. Fighting nature is an insightful analysis of the historical legacy of 19th-century colonialism, war, animal acquisition and transportation. This legacy of entrenched beliefs about the human right to exploit other animal species is yet to be defeated. "Peta Tait brings to the book an impressive scholarly command of the documentary material, from which she draws a range of vivid examples and revealing analyses of human–animal confrontation in popular entertainments ... The book is written with verve and clarity, and will be of interest to a wide readership in performance studies and cultural history." Professor Jane R. Goodall, Western Sydney University Peta Tait FAHA is Professor of Theatre and Drama at La Trobe University and Visiting Professor at the University of Wollongong, and author of Wild and dangerous performances: animals, emotions, circus (2012).
Author | : Mary Morton |
Publisher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 175 |
Release | : 2007-06-25 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0892368896 |
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In the 1720s and 1730s, Jean-Baptiste Oudry established himself as the preeminent painter in France of hunts, animals, still lifes, and landscapes. Oudry’s Painted Menagerie focuses on a suite of eleven life-size portraits of exotic animals from the royal menagerie at Versailles, painted by Oudry between 1739 and 1752. These paintings eventually found their way into the ducal collection in Schwerin, Germany. Among them is the magnificent portrait of Clara, an Indian rhinoceros who became a celebrity in mid-eighteenth-century Europe. Her portrait has been out of public view for more than a century, and it is presented here in its newly conserved state.
Author | : R. J. Hoage |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1996-05-07 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780801853739 |
Download New Worlds, New Animals Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Illustrated with nearly 100 photographs, New Worlds, New Animals gives readers a new respect for and understanding of the role of zoos in social and cultural history.
Author | : William Swainson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 1838 |
Genre | : Animal behavior |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Angelica Groom |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2018-10-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004371133 |
Download Exotic Animals in the Art and Culture of the Medici Court in Florence Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An examination of the diverse roles exotic animals, both living species and depicted as motifs in art, played in the fashioning of the Medici’s courtly identity.
Author | : Christopher Plumb |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2015-06-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 085773928X |
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In the eighteenth century, it would not have been impossible to encounter an elephant or a kangaroo making its way down the Strand, heading towards the menagerie of Mr. Pidcock at the Exeter Change. Pidcock's was just one of a number of commercial menagerists who plied their trade in London in this period the predecessors to the zoological societies of the Victorian era. As the British Empire expanded and seaborne trade flooded into London's ports, the menagerists gained access to animals from the most far-flung corners of the globe, and these strange creatures became the objects of fascination and wonder. Many aristocratic families sought to create their own private menageries with which to entertain their guests, while for the less well-heeled, touring exhibitions of exotic creatures both alive and dead satisfied their curiosity for the animal world. While many exotic creatures were treasured as a form of spectacle, others fared less well turtles went into soups and civet cats were sought after for ingredients for perfume. In this entertaining and enlightening book, Plumb introduces the many tales of exotic animals in London.
Author | : Samuel J. M. M. Alberti |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0813931673 |
Download The Afterlives of Animals Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This collection of essays comprises short "biographies" of a number of famous taxidermied animals. Each essay traces the life, death and museum "afterlife" of a specific creature, illuminating the overlooked role of the dead beast in the modern human-animal encounter through practices as disparate as hunting and zookeeping.
Author | : |
Publisher | : B.E.S. Publishing |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2016-02 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 9781438008509 |
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Two acclaimed illustrators have created this collection of intricately designed animal headshots for keen colorists the world over. From mighty bears to awe-inspiring tigers, each illustration is printed on perforated paper, so it's easily pulled out and available for display.
Author | : William Swainson |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2024-08-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3385604494 |
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1838.