Animals, Plants and Afterimages

Valérie Bienvenue is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History of Art and Film Studies at the Université de Montréal. Her thesis critically examines human-equine relations through the prism of modern art and visual culture. Prior to her academic career, she worked for ten years in equestrian circles, including teaching bareback riding and rehabilitating horses suffering from physical and psychological trauma. She is the author of several articles and book chapters.

“The editors and contributors of this book challenge readers to imagine alternative ways to “see” extinction and to share that vision with others. For those willing to engage it, meeting that challenge in Animals, Plants and Afterimages comes with powerful and illuminating insights.” • The Quarterly Review of Biology“Animals, Plants and Afterimages draws together an impressive range of essays that describe, contemplate, explore, and challenge the relationships between extinction and representation, engaging with a series of perceptual, conceptual, material, and illusory afterimages of animals and plants with whom we can no longer co-exist but who still matter to us.” • Rick De Vos, Curtin University“The editors’ approach to extinctions through museum exhibitions, technologies and works of art is highly illuminating. Next time, when I visit a natural history museum, I will see the exhibition and the dead animals and plants in a different light.” • Markku Oksanen, University of Eastern Finland

• AcknowledgementsList of illustrations, Figures and TablesIntroduction: Representing Extinction: Art, Science and AfterimagesValérie Bienvenue and Nicholas CharePart I: Dialogues about ExtinctionChapter 1. The Dinosaur as Cultural Symbol and Totem: W.J.T. Mitchell in ConversationW.J.T. MitchellChapter 2. Visualizing Extinction: Harriet Ritvo in ConversationHarriet RitvoChapter 3. ‘Putting Nature Back Together Again’: Stuart Pimm in ConversationStuart PimmPart II: Indigenous Peoples and ExtinctionChapter 4. The Beothuk, the Great Auk and the Newfoundland Wolf: Animal and Human Genocide in Canada’s Easternmost ProvinceNicholas ChareChapter 5. Cultural Memory of Recent Extinctions: A Chinese PerspectiveSamuel T. TurveyChapter 6. Grief, Extinction, and Bilhaa (Abalone)hagwil hayetsk (Charles R. Menzies)Part III: Representing Avian and Insect ExtinctionsChapter 7. Sparrows with teeth and claws? Reconstructing the Cretaceous Enantiornithes (Aves: Ornithothoraces)Jingmai O’ConnorChapter 8. Rare Birds and Rare Books The Species as Work of ArtGordon M. SayreChapter 9. The Virtual Realities of Species Revivalism: Restoring the Kaua‘i ‘Ō‘ō Bird in Jakob Kudsk Steensen's Re-AnimatedSarah BezanChapter 10. Insects, Spiders, Snails and Empathy: Representing Invertebrate Extinctions in Natural History MuseumsPedro CardosoPart IV: Representing Extinct Plants and FungiChapter 11. Reconstructing Lycopsids Lost to the Deep PastJeffrey P. BencaChapter 12. Ellis Rowan, Extinction and the Politics of Flower PaintingJeanette HoornChapter 13. Towards Extinction: Mapping the Vulnerable, Threatened and Critically Endangered Plant in ‘Moments of Friction’Dawn SandersChapter 14. Sweetness, Power, Yeasts, and Entomo-terroirRobert R. Dunn, Monica C. Sanchez and Matthew Morse BookerPart V: Representing Extinct MammalsChapter 15. Animal Extinction, Film and the Death DriveBarbara CreedChapter 16. Tasmanian Tiger: Precious Little RemainsDavid MaynardChapter 17. From the General to the Particular: Piecing together the Life and Afterlife of A544, Louis XVI’s QuaggaValérie BienvenuePart VI: Exhibiting ExtinctionChapter 18. Three Variations on the Theme of Extinction: Looking Anew at the Art and Science of Mark DionAnne-Sophie MicloChapter 19. The Exhibition of Extinct Species: A CritiqueNorman MacLeodChapter 20. Exhibiting Extinction: Thylacines in Museum DisplayKathryn MedlockAfterword: After ExtinctionValérie Bienvenue and Nicholas ChareContributorsIndex