Taxidermy as a Cultural Object: Notes on Preservation, Death and Art

2020 ◽  
pp. 59-65
Author(s):  
Montse Morcate
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
York City ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Central Element ◽  
Cultural Object ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
New Generation

This essay, based on academic research on the representation of death, grief and science, deals with the new resurgence of taxidermy in New York City, where a new generation of artists and artisans explore the aesthetic and ethical limits of this practice. As taxidermy deals with lifeless bodies of animals it becomes a delicate issue for many, in which the central element of debate would be around the legitimacy of using the corpse of an animal and the need for preserving or exhibiting it. Different perspectives of this practice are analysed by means of classical taxidermy, the anthropomorphic style or contemporary art based on taxidermy practises, in order to address questions such as: Is ethical taxidermy possible? Is commemorative taxidermy of a beloved pet acceptable? Why does taxidermy appeal or disgust? Is taxidermy controversial just because it questions the limits of life, death and decay? What is the contribution of the new generation of taxidermists? Keywords: art, death, New York City, preservation, taxidermy

New Wind

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Cornell
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
York City ◽  
College Graduates ◽  
Occupy Wall Street ◽  
World War ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
Little Magazines ◽  
New Generation

Something of a revolution in anarchist thought occurred during the 1940s and early 1950s, much of it centered in New York City. World War II divided the small contingent of U.S. anarchists active during the Depression years, as many movement veterans reluctantly endorsed the Allies as the only viable means of defeating fascism. However, a new generation of activists -- many of them recent college graduates -- established journals and organizations that rejected participation in the war, often on pacifist grounds, and that began to reevaluate central tenets of anarchist theory. This chapter explores the milieu that developed in New York City, Woodstock, NY, and rural New Jersey at mid-century, focusing on three "little magazines" that supported and influenced one another: Politics, Why?, and Retort. Although anarchism was at a numerical nadir during these years, a tight-knit community of artists, theorists, and radical pacifists developed ideas, tactics, and aesthetics that reshaped anarchism so fundamentally that they remain prominent today in the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations.

Edna Lewis

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
African American ◽  
York City ◽  
Black Families ◽  
Oak Trees ◽  
Professional Woman ◽  
Political Activist ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Wild Strawberries

Edna Lewis (1916-2006) wrote some of America's most resonant, lyrical, and significant cookbooks, including the now classic The Taste of Country Cooking. Lewis cooked and wrote as a means to explore her memories of childhood on a farm in Freetown, Virginia, a community first founded by black families freed from slavery. With such observations as "we would gather wild honey from the hollow of oak trees to go with the hot biscuits and pick wild strawberries to go with the heavy cream," she commemorated the seasonal richness of southern food. After living many years in New York City, where she became a chef and a political activist, she returned to the South and continued to write. Her reputation as a trailblazer in the revival of regional cooking and as a progenitor of the farm-to-table movement continues to grow. In this first-ever critical appreciation of Lewis's work, food-world stars gather to reveal their own encounters with Edna Lewis. Together they penetrate the mythology around Lewis and illuminate her legacy for a new generation, making a case for Lewis as a critical voice in African American foodways, and a pioneering professional woman chef, and the single most important figure in regional American food.

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1992 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-31
Author(s):  
Halina Rusak
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
York City ◽  
Art History ◽  
Art World ◽  
Full Spectrum ◽  
Insight Into

My involvement as an artist and as an art librarian allows me to see a full spectrum of art history from its inception by an artist to its assessment by an art historian. It enables me to better understand the needs of faculty and students in the field of visual arts, as well as to interface effectively with faculty and scholars in art history. My gallery membership at SOHO 20 in New York City provides me with insight into art trends in the making. It demonstrates well a woman’s place in the contemporary art world, and a role of a critic in promoting or establishing an artist. I feel that this knowledge makes me a better librarian.

scholarly journals BRCA Genetic Counseling Among At-Risk Latinas in New York City: New Beliefs Shape New Generation

2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 134-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katarina M. Sussner ◽  
Tiffany Edwards ◽  
Cristina Villagra ◽  
M. Carina Rodriguez ◽  
Hayley S. Thompson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Genetic Counseling ◽  
York City ◽  
New Generation

Performing aesthetic confidence: how contemporary art collectors maintain status

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 215-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Wohl
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
York City ◽  
Privileged Access ◽  
Art Collectors ◽  
Good Taste ◽  
Cultural Markets ◽  
Lower Status ◽  
Status Signals

Abstract In cultural markets, where value is highly uncertain, intermediaries and consumers select products by using status signals, including public metrics and informal recommendations. However, certain intermediaries and consumers risk their statuses and access to informal recommendations if they appear to rely on these status signals. Drawing upon the case of contemporary art collectors in New York City, I reveal that collectors work to maintain their statuses while utilizing status signals through performances of ‘aesthetic confidence’. In these performances, they claim a willingness to choose artworks based on their independent and good taste. Collectors flexibly cite multiple and sometimes opposing qualities of their purchases and interactions as evidence of aesthetic confidence. Higher status collectors reinforce status hierarchies through their privileged access to resources for displaying aesthetic confidence and their policing of lower status collectors’ claims. Performances of aesthetic confidence are both influenced by status and necessary for displaying status.

scholarly journals The Institute for Southern Contemporary Art (ISCA)

1970 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
João Enxuto ◽  
Erica Love
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
York City ◽  
South Florida ◽  
Art Magazine ◽  
Film Archives

João Enxuto and Erica Love are artists and writers living in New York City. Their writing has appeared in Art in America, Mousse Contemporary Art Magazine, Wired, and X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly. They have given talks and exhibited work at the Centre Pompidou, Whitney Museum of Art, the New Museum, Anthology Film Archives, Walker Art Center, Yossi Milo Gallery, Carriage Trade, Louisiana Museum in Denmark, ArtCenter/South Florida, and the Tamayo Museum in Mexico City.

scholarly journals The Matter of Mapping Multispecies Entanglements of Mourning—A Manifesto’s Shout, An Orca’s Tour of Grief

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-119
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Viola Moulton
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Chinook Salmon ◽  
York City ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Killer Whale ◽  
Felix Guattari ◽  
Salish Sea ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Ethical Response

Mapping entanglements is work—work of care, maintenance, and mourning. This project utilises a new materialist methodology inherited from the work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, who follow lines of becoming to track compositions which compose worlds. To map (non-linear, temporal, and situated) lines of loss across multispecies landscapes is material work of more-than-human mourning. The New York City-based performance artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles—alongside scholars such as María Puig de la Bellacasa and Donna J. Haraway—reorient configurations of work and care, which enable these lines to be followed into more-than-human worlds. Mapping lines of mourning into multispecies worlds is material work of the aesthetic-ethical response within shared and troubled landscapes. The key storytellers within the narrative of mourning and joy woven into this paper are the Salish Sea, the Lummi Nation, the Chinook Salmon, and the Southern Resident killer whale; the voices and cries to which this project, in work and care, is dedicated.

scholarly journals SOCIAL MOVEMENT UNIO NISM AND PROGRESSIVE PUBLIC POLICY IN NEW YORK CITY

Just Labour ◽  
1969 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy Reiss
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
York City ◽  
Labour Movement ◽  
Social Movement Unionism ◽  
Playing Field ◽  
Union Leaders ◽  
New Generation

This paper explores the state of social movement unionism in New York City and how labour-community coalitions are forging a progressive public policy agenda. Based on twenty formal interviews with labour leaders and nearly a decade of practice working in the city’s social and economic justice movement, it appears that unions are increasingly interested in coupling efforts to improve wages and working conditions with broader strategies for growth – namely, levelling the playing field for organizing through public policy reform and pursuing a legislative strategy of social, economic, and environmental justice that will give the broader public more of a reason to want to join a union. However, the New York City labour movement faces a number of obstacles – including union democracy issues, a new generation of conservative union leaders, and increasingly conservative municipal, state, and federal administrations – towards adopting social movement unionism and a progressive public policy platform

scholarly journals Individual, Psychosocial, and Social Correlates of Unprotected Anal Intercourse in a New Generation of Young Men Who Have Sex With Men in New York City

2013 ◽  
Vol 103 (5) ◽  
pp. 889-895 ◽  
Author(s):  
Perry N. Halkitis ◽  
Farzana Kapadia ◽  
Daniel E. Siconolfi ◽  
Robert W. Moeller ◽  
Rafael Perez Figueroa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Anal Intercourse ◽  
Unprotected Anal Intercourse ◽  
Social Correlates ◽  
Sex With Men ◽  
New Generation

Contemporary Art-World Bias in Regard to Display Holography: New York City

Leonardo ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 22 (3/4) ◽  
pp. 419 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Tulla Lightfoot
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
York City ◽  
Art World
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