Ebook: Speculative taxidermy: natural history, animal surfaces, and art in the anthropocene

Prologue: The carnal immanence of political realism: Realism, materiality, and agency -- Introduction: New taxidermy surfaces in contemporary art -- 1. Reconfiguring animal skins: Fragmented histories and manipulated surfaces -- 2. A natural history panopticon: Power, representation, and animal objectification -- 3. Dioramas: Power, realism, and decorum -- 4. The end of the daydream: Taxidermy and photography -- 5. Following materiality: From medium to surface: Medium specificity and animal visibility in the modern age -- 6. The allure of the veneer: Aesthetics of speculative taxidermy -- 7. This is not a horse: Biopower and animal skins in the anthropocene -- Coda: Toward new mythologies: The ritual, the sacrifice, the interconnectedness -- Appendix: Some notes toward a manifesto for artists working with and about taxidermy animals / Mark Dion and Robert Marbury.