Color Plates (following page 178) 5 Mark Dion, Survival of the Cutest (Who Gets on the Ark?), from the 1 Mark Dion, Les nécrophores– series Wheelbarrows of Progress, with L’enterrement (Hommage à Jean-Henri William Schefferine, 1990. Toy stuffed Fabre), 1997. Synthetic moleskin, animals, white enamel on red steel, rope, synthetic necrophore bee- wood and rubber wheelbarrow, 63.5 x tles, jute rope, eye hooks, books. 68.5 x 141 cm. Photo courtesy of the Installation view from the exhibition artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery,

Mark Dion: Microcosmographia, illustrations New York. South London Gallery, London, 2006. Collection Antoine de Galbert, 6 Mark Dion, Ichthyosaur, 2003. Mixed Paris. Photo courtesy of the artist and media. Photo courtesy of the artist Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York. and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York. 2 Mark Dion, Park: Mobile Wilderness Unit, 2001. Construction trailer, 7 Mark Dion, The Delirium of taxidermic European bison, painted Alfred Russel Wallace, 1994 (detail). backdrop, dirt, leaves, stones, artificial Installation, mixed media. Photo fern and fungi, 290 x 170 x 380 cm. courtesy of the artist and Tanya Photo courtesy of the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York. Bonakdar Gallery, New York. 8 Mark Dion, Extinction Series: Black 3 Mark Dion, Polar Bears and Toucans Rhino Head, 1989 (detail). Wooden (from Amazonas to Svalbard), 1991. crates, stenciled lettering, color Stuffed toy polar bear, Sony sport photographs, rhino head, wood chips, cassette player, cassette recorded in map of Africa. Photo courtesy of the Venezuela/Amazonas territory, ship- artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, ping crate, electrical cord, tar, wash New York. tub, 231 x 112 x 75 cm. Collection 9 Mark Dion, Killers Killed, 1994–2007. DuMont Schütte. Photo courtesy Tree, taxidermic animals, tar, galva- of the artist and Tanya Bonakdar nized aluminum, foam, paint, 128 x Gallery, New York. 65 x 60 in. Photo courtesy of the art- 4 Mark Dion, Landfill, 1999–2000. ist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New Mixed media, 71.5 x 147.5 x 64 York. in. Collection of Museum of 10 Mark Dion, Grotto of the Sleeping Contemporary Art, San Diego, Bear—Revisited, 1997. Synthetic bear, California. Courtesy the artist and plastic, bubble wrap, wood crate, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York. sawhorses. Photo courtesy of the art- Photo: Pablo Mason. ist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York. 11 Mark Dion, Theatrum Mundi, 2001. Photograph © Amy Stein. Photo Mixed media. Photo courtesy of the courtesy of the artist. artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, 7 New York. 5 Amy Stein, Dead End Street, 2007. 12 Mark Dion, The Fixity of a Rodent From Amy Stein, Domesticated. viii Species, 1990. Desk, animated Mickey Portland: Photolucida/Critical Mass, S

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ST etchings, bird skeleton, books, toys, 8 LLU I pointer stick, specimens, eggs, teacup, 6 Mark Dion, Mobile Gull Appreciation Tyrannosaurus rex models, dissecting Unit, 2008 Folkestone Triennial. kit, audio tape, 150 x 300 x 150 cm. Photograph © Thierry Bal. Photo courtesy of the artist and Tanya 12 Bonakdar Gallery, New York. 7 Mark Dion, Portrait of a Collector, 2004. Taxidermic magpie, glass bell fIgures jar, wooden pedestal, miscellaneous objects, 148 x 30 cm. Private col- 1 Amy Stein, Passage, 2008. From lection. Courtesy of the artist and Amy Stein, Domesticated. Portland: Galerie In Situ/Fabienne Leclerc, Photolucida/Critical Mass, 2008. Paris. Photo: Bertrand Huet/Tutti. Photograph © Amy Stein. Photo 13 courtesy of the artist. 2 8 Pablo Picasso, Dora Maar as Sphinx. Frontispiece of Pablo Picasso and 2 Mark Dion, Scala Naturae, 1994. Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon, Stepped plinth, artifacts, specimens, 40 dessins en marge du Buffon (Paris: taxidermic animals, bust, 238 x 100 x Jonquières, 1957). © 2012 Estate of 297 cm. Photo courtesy of the artist Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New (ARS), New York. York. 22 4 9 [Juste] Chevillet and Georges-Louis 3 Mark Dion, The Delirium of Alfred Leclerc, comte de Buffon, Le Jocko, Russel Wallace, 1994. Installation, 1766. Engraving. In Buffon, Histoire mixed media, approx. 320 x 295 x 320 naturelle, générale et particulière, cm. Photo courtesy of the artist and avec la description du Cabinet du roi, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna. 44 vols. (Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 5 1749–1804), 14:81. Courtesy of the 4 Amy Stein, New Homes, 2008. From Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles Amy Stein, Domesticated. Portland: (84-B8203). Photolucida/Critical Mass, 2008. 31 10 Jean Charles Bacquoy, Jean-Baptiste Artists Rights Society (ARS), New Oudry, and Georges-Louis Leclerc, York. Courtesy of the Norton Simon comte de Buffon, untitled [The Art Foundation. Photo: Norton (Domesticated) Horse], 1749. Simon Art Foundation. Engraving. In Buffon, Histoire 36 naturelle, générale et particulière, avec la 14 ix Jacques de Sève, A.-J. Defehrt, and s n o i at r t s u l l i description du Cabinet du roi, 44 vols. Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de (Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1749–1804), Buffon, untitled, 1764. Engraving. 4:366. Courtesy of the Getty Research In Buffon, Histoire naturelle, générale Institute, Los Angeles (84-B8203). et particulière, avec la description 32 du Cabinet du roi, 44 vols. (Paris: 11 Jean Charles Bacquoy, Jacques de Imprimerie Royale, 1749–1804), Sève, and Georges-Louis Leclerc, 11:1. Courtesy of the Getty Research comte de Buffon, untitled [The Bull], Institute, Los Angeles (84-B8203). 1766. Engraving. In Buffon, Histoire 40 naturelle, générale et particulière, 15 Civet Cat. From Edward Topsell, avec la description du Cabinet du roi, The Historie of Fovre-Footed Beastes 44 vols. (Paris: Imprimerie Royale, (London: William Jaggard, 1607), 1749–1804), 14:531. Courtesy of the 757. University of Chicago Library, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles Special Collections Research Center. (84-B8203). 41 33 16 A Spanish Chasseur of the Island of 12 Pablo Picasso, The Monkey (Le singe), Cuba, 1803. Engraving. In R. C. 1936, published 1942. Aquatint and Dallas, A History of the Maroons from drypoint. From the illustrated book Their Origin to the Establishment of Eaux fortes originales pour textes du Their Chief Tribe at Sierra Leone, 2 Buffon (Histoire Naturelle)(Paris: vols. (London: T. M. Longman and Martin Fabiani, 1942). The Louis O. Rees, 1803), vol. 2, frontispiece. E. Stern Collection. The Museum Reproduced with the permission of of Modern Art, New York. © 2012 Rare Books and Manuscripts, Special Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Collections Library, Pennsylvania Society (ARS), New York. Digital im- State University Libraries. age © The Museum of Modern Art. 63 Licensed by SCALA/Art Resource, New York. 17 Marcus Rainsford, The Mode of 35 Training Blood Hounds in St. Domingo, and of Exercising Them 13a–f Pablo Picasso, Bull series, 6 states, by Chasseurs, 1805. Engraving. In 5 December 1945–17 January 1946. Rainsford, An Historical Account of Lithograph, worked first with wash, the Black Empire of Hayti (London: then pen, scraper, and crayon, on Cundee, 1805), tipped in between stone. © 2012 Estate of Pablo Picasso/ 388 and 389. Reproduced with Center for British Art, Paul Mellon the permission of Rare Books and Collection. Manuscripts, Special Collections 76 Library, Pennsylvania State University 22 Head of the Chillingham Bull Shot Libraries. by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, 1879. 68 x Engraving. From John Storer, The S

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ST 1805. Engraving. In Rainsford, An 1879), 169. LLU I Historical Account of the Black Empire 110 of Hayti (London: Cundee, 1805), 23 Thomas Bewick, The Oran-outang, tipped in between 422 and 423. or Wild Man of the Woods, [1790]. Reproduced with the permission of Engraving. From Bewick, A General Rare Books and Manuscripts, Special History of Quadrupeds (1790) Collections Library, Pennsylvania (Newcastle: T. Bewick, 1824), 452. State University Libraries. 113 69 24 The Champion Herdwick Ram, “Lord 19 Sgt. Michael Smith with his dog, Paramount,” 1882. From Frank W. Marco, watching a detainee on an Garnett, Westmorland Agriculture, unspecified date in 2003 at the Abu 1800–1900 (Kendal, England: Titus Ghraib prison in Baghdad, Iraq. Wilson, 1912), facing p. 154. Image obtained by the Associated 115 Press. © 2011 Associated Press. 71 25 Douglas Gordon, Play Dead; Real Time, 22 February–29 March 2003. 20 J. Hill, Slaughter-houses, c. 1806. Installation view, Gagosian Gallery, Aquatint. From William Henry New York. Artwork © Douglas Pyne, Microcosm, or A Picturesque Gordon. Courtesy of Gagosian Delineation of the Arts, Agriculture, Gallery and Studio lost but found. and Manufactures of Great Britain, 2 Photo: Robert McKeever. vols. (London: William Miller, 1806; 118 reprint, New York: Benjamin Blom, 1971), 2:259. Yale Center for British 26 Sydney P. Hall, Ceylon—The Dead Art, Paul Mellon Collection. Elephant, 1875. Engraving. From 75 William Howard Russell, The Prince of Wales’ Tour: A Diary of India (New 21 William Henry Pyne, Microcosm, or York: Lovell, Adam, Wesson, 1877), A Picturesque Delineation of the Arts, facing p. 254. Agriculture, and Manufactures of Great 121 Britain, 2 vols. (London: William Miller, 1806; reprint: New York, 27 Carl Akeley, Delia Akeley, 1905. Benjamin Blom, 1971), 2:18. Yale Photograph. Photo: American Museum of Natural History Library 32 Daniel Spoerri, Carnival of Animals: (image # PC11-383). Reproductions of Humans Compared 126 with Those of Wolves, 1995. Assemblage on enlarged scan, after Charles Le 28 Carl Akeley, The Fighting Bulls, 1909. Brun (1670), with one additional Taxidermic elephants. The Field object, 140 x 100 cm and 140 x 50 x xi

Museum, Chicago. Photo: The Field s n o i at r t s u l l i 50 cm. Photo: Kunststaulager Daniel Museum (negative # CSZ29277). Spoerri. Courtesy of the artist. 129 161 29 Carl Akeley, The Wounded Comrade, 33 Daniel Spoerri, Fleischwolfbrunnen 1913. Bronze sculpture, 24 x 12 1/4 [Meat-grinder fountain] / Fontana in. The Field Museum, Chicago. Tritacarne (also known as Gocciolatoio Photo: The Field Museum (negative [Drip stone]), 1961–91. Bronze #CSZ62886). sculpture, 3.25 m x 2.10 m. Photo: 130 Fondazione Il Giardino di Daniel 30 Somali Wild Ass, 1896. Photograph. Spoerri. Courtesy of the artist. The Field Museum, Chicago. 162 Photo: The Field Museum (negative #CSZ6011). Reproduced in Mark Alvey, “The Cinema as Taxidermy: Carl Akeley and the Preservative Obsession,” Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media 48 (Spring 2007): 31. 135 31 Daniel Spoerri, Carnival of Animals: Reproductions of Humans Compared with Those of Foxes, 1995. Assemblage on enlarged scan, after Charles Le Brun (1670), 185 x 100 x 30 cm. Photo: Kunststaulager Daniel Spoerri. Courtesy of the artist. 158