Opulent taxidermy made by Idiots
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Tag Archives: taxidermy
Hicken’s Fur-Bearing Trout
Cleaning the elephant skin
Museum staff cleaning an elephant skin at the American Museum of Natural History, June 1933. Image: Thane L. Bierwert, via the archives of the American Museum of Natural History, New York.
Museum staff cleaning the skin of an elephant at the American Museum of Natural History, June 1933. Image: Thane L. Bierwert, via the archives of the American Museum of Natural History, New York.
James Lomax’s inflatable skins
Jane Howarth’s beautiful bird guts and a rant about lousy artist statements
Jane Howarth, ‘Bonne Bouche’ series. Taxidermied seagull with pearl innards. (Image: via Obsesszine.)
The weird and wonderful world of Walter Potter
Birds in little sweaters: Annette Messager’s “Le Repos des Pensionnaires”
Annette Messager, “Le Repos des Pensionnaires”, 1971-72. Centre Pompidou.
A strange humanoid creature: Charles Waterton’s ‘Nondescript’
Charles Waterton, The ‘Nondescript’, ca 1824. (Wakefield Museum)
I think that probably every person, at some point in their lives, gets the urge to make their own ridiculously interesting creature out of the shaved a** of a monkey. (Right?) Well this grim little fellow is the product of that impulse, created around 1824 by an eccentric but well-respected 19th century English naturalist, Charles Waterton (1782-1865). Continue reading
