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Habitat dioramas : illusions of wilderness in museums of natural history
- Title
- Habitat dioramas : illusions of wilderness in museums of natural history / by Karen Wonders.
- Author
- Wonders, Karen.
- Publication
- Uppsala : [publisher not identified], 1993.
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- Description
- 262 pages : illustrations; 27 cm.
- Series Statement
- Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Figura, 0071-481X ; nova ser. 25
- Uniform Title
- Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Figura ; nova ser. 25.
- Alternative Title
- Illusions of wilderness in museums of natural history
- Subjects
- Diorama
- Zoological museums
- Habitat (ecologie)
- Sciences naturelles > Musées > États-Unis > 20e siècle
- Dioramas > Suède > 20e siècle
- Sciences naturelles > Musées > Suède > 20e siècle
- Natural history museums
- Museum techniques
- Diorama's
- Muséologie
- Diorama > musées scientifiques et techniques > histoire > thèses
- Natuurlijke historie
- Musea
- Dioramas > États-Unis > 20e siècle
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-260) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Defining the Habitat Diorama. Derivation of "Diorama" Themes and Variations -- Ch. I. The Art of Taxidermy 1800-1900. Discovering the Animal Form. Victorian Nature Displays: Mammals. Diorama Forerunners: Birds -- Ch. II. Re-creating the Biological Landscape in Sweden: The Development of Habitat Dioramas (1). The Biological Museums. The Gylling Dioramas. Why in Sweden? European Exceptions -- Ch. III. Enshrining Nature in the United States: The Development of Habitat Dioramas (2). Public Education and Museum Reform. The Group Method. The Habitat Idea -- Ch. IV. Scenes from the Primordial Wilderness. A Sportsman's Eden. A Vanishing Era. An American Aesthetic -- Ch. V. The Phantom Vault of Heaven: The Diorama Illusion. An Ecological Theatre. Nature Through a Window -- Ch. VI. The Perfect Mating of Science and Art: Re-thinking the Role of the Habitat Diorama -- Appendix: Select List of Diorama Painters -- Museum Abbreviations.
- ISBN
- 9155431577
- 9789155431570
- LCCN
- 95152720
- OCLC
- ocm29425206
- 29425206
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries