Speculative Taxidermy

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  1. THE END OF THE DAYDREAM279

  2. R. Broglio 2011, Surface Encounters: Thinking with Animals and Art (Minneapolis: Uni-
    versity of Minnesota Press), xvi.

  3. M. Foucault 1966, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Science (London:
    Routledge, 1970, 2003), 332.

  4. Ibid., 330–374; M. Foucault and N. Bourriaud 1971/2009, Manet and the Object of
    Painting (London: Tate, 2011).

  5. Foucault 1966:273.

  6. Ibid., 330–374.

  7. Ibid., 369.

  8. C. Baudelaire 1863, “The Painter of Modern Life,” in The Painter of Modern Life and
    Other Essays (London: Phaidon), 1964.

  9. Ibid.

  10. The germ of a speculative attitude toward realism can be indeed found in Foucault’s
    work, especially as he claims that at this point “natural things become more than nat-
    ural,” that is, they transcend the crystallized ontology of realism, which classical art
    relied upon in the uttering of affirmation. M. Foucault 1984b, “What Is Enlighten-
    ment?” in P. Rainbow, ed., The Foucault Reader (New York: Pantheon), 32–50.

  11. The germ of a speculative attitude toward realism can be indeed found in Foucault’s
    work, especially as he claims that at this point “ ‘natural’ things become ‘more than
    natural’ ” (ibid., 41); that is, they transcend the crystallized ontology of realism, which
    classical art relied upon in the uttering of affirmation.

  12. Foucault 1966:314.

  13. Ibid., 142.

  14. M. Brower 2011, Developing Animals: Wildlife and Early American Photography Min-
    neapolis: University of Minnesota Press), xvii.

  15. Ibid., 25–82.

  16. J. R. Ryan 1997, Picturing Empire: Photography and the Visualization of the British Em-
    pire (London: Reaktion), 110–112.

  17. Ibid., 100–101.

  18. J. Berger 1980, “Why Look at Animals?” In About Looking (London, Vintage, 1993), 16.

  19. Ibid., 17.

  20. Ibid.

  21. Although Berger made no mention of taxidermy in his text, it is possible to argue that
    taxidermy dioramas also operated according to economies of representation and con-
    sumption very similar to those of wildlife photography.

  22. R. Horn, “Roni Horn aka Roni Horn: Explore the Exhibition, Themes, Pairs,” Tate
    O n l i n e , h t t p : / / w w w. t a t e. o r g. u k / w h a t s - o n / t a t e - m o d e r n / e x h i b i t i o n / r o n i - h o r n - a k a - r o n i
    -horn /roni -horn -aka -roni -horn -explore -exhibition -3.

  23. These concepts had considerably shifted since their formulation in The Order of Things,
    also through Magritte’s own argumentation of the subject. M. Jay 1986, “In the Empire
    of the Gaze: Foucault and the Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French
    Thought,” in D. Hoy, ed., Foucault: A Critical Reader (London: Wiley-Blackwell),
    175–204.

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