What is the name for the art of preparing and stuffing animal skins?
Taxidermy art and science simply break with notions of representation, but instead actively critiques practices of representation as they take place within science and cultural life.” Her article “Animal Skins in Contemporary Art” suggests that, “Traditional taxidermy pushes forward the belief that animals "are" their skin.” Hansen discusses the nature of human and animal subjectivity through taxidermy practices, using Bryndis Snaebjörnsdottir and Mark Wilson’s "nanoq: flat out and bluesome" (2004) as an example. Hansen describes the preserved polar bears of Snaebjörnsdottir and Wilson as, “mak[ing] explicit the way in which animal life is ‘serialized’ through the use and display of the ‘specimen’.” Taxidermy art
Preparing for the Matinee The painting was originally purchased by Washington University in Saint Louis in 1909, and loaned to the City Art Museum. It was sold by the Kende Galleries in New York in 1945 to the J.W. Young Art Gallery at Chicago. John G. Rauch of Indianapolis purchased the painting from the gallery, and his wife subsequently donated it to the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 1982. Preparing for the Matinee Preparing for the Matinee is an oil painting by American artist Edmund C. Tarbell, created in 1907. It is currently part of the permanent collection at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.