Animals, Plants and Afterimages: The Art and Science of Representing Extinction

Contents\nList of Illustrations, Figures and Tables\nAcknowledgements\nIntroduction. Representing Extinction: Art, Science and Afterimages\nPart I. Dialogues about Extinction\nChapter 1. The Dinosaur as Cultural Symbol and Totem: W. J. T. Mitchell in Conversation\nChapter 2. Visualizing Extinction: Harriet Ritvo in Conversation\nChapter 3. ‘Putting Nature Back Together Again’: Stuart Pimm in Conversation\nPart II. Indigenous Peoples and Extinction\nChapter 4. The Beothuk, the Great Auk and the Newfoundland Wolf: Animal and Human Genocide in Canada’s Easternmost Province\nChapter 5. Cultural Memory of Recent Extinctions: A Chinese Perspective\nChapter 6. Grief, Extinction and Bilhaa (Abalone)\nPart III. Representing Avian and Insect Extinctions\nChapter 7. Sparrows with Teeth and Claws? Reconstructing the Cretaceous Enantiornithes (Aves: Ornithothoraces)\nChapter 8. Rare Birds and Rare Books: The Species as Work of Art\nChapter 9. Th e Species Revivalist Sublime: Encountering the Kaua‘i ‘Ō‘ō Bird in Jakob Kudsk Steensen’s Re-Animated\nChapter 10. Insects, Spiders, Snails and Empathy: Representing Invertebrate Extinctions in Natural History Museums\nPart IV. Representing Extinct Plants and Fungi\nChapter 11. Reconstructing Lycopsids Lost to the Deep Past\nChapter 12. Ellis Rowan, Extinction and the Politics of Flower Painting\nChapter 13. Towards Extinction: Mapping the Vulnerable, Th reatened and Critically Endangered Plant in ‘Moments of Friction’\nChapter 14. Sweetness, Power, Yeasts and Entomo-terroir\nPart V. Representing Extinct Mammals\nChapter 15. Animal Extinction, Film and the Death Drive\nChapter 16. Tasmanian Tiger: Precious Little Remains\nChapter 17. From the General to the Particular: Piecing Together the Life and Afterlife of A544, Louis XVI’s Quagga\nPart VI. Exhibiting Extinction\nChapter 18. Three Variations on the Theme of Extinction: Looking Anew at the Art and Science of Mark Dion\nChapter 19. The Exhibition of Extinct Species: A Critique\nChapter 20. Exhibiting Extinction: Thylacines in Museum Display\nAfterword. After Extinction\nNotes on Contributors\nIndex