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Notes: Alexis Turner book nytime articles:
The 337 images in “Taxidermy” are artful and immaculate — everything that a taxidermy workshop, with its dust, fumes, stench, viscera and decay, is not. This book is eye candy (the frontispiece is, in fact, a surprisingly delectable array of glass eyes), which makes sense because Alexis Turner is the founder of London Taxidermy, a business that supplies natural history artifacts to the fashion and film industries, among other clients. You can see his stuffed and pickled props in the “Harry Potter” films, “Sherlock ­Holmes,” “Pirates of the Caribbean,” “Les ­Misérables,” “Anna Karenina,” “Skyfall” — and now in this book.
Turner’s stated intent is to celebrate taxidermy in the 21st century as “a product with marketing potential” that attracts “media attention and commercial success.” Taxidermy “is fashionable once more,” he declares, proving his premise with this lavish coffee-table book featuring a dazzling assortment of interiors, eccentric old museums and estates, advertisements, art and window displays.

https://www.trendhunter.com/protrends/fake-taxidermy-hanging-faux-animal-mounts-as-creative-yet-cruelty-free-wall
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/faux-taxidermy-decor_n_3245609
Hipster use of taxi in decor as ppl using objects that “exude a palpable nostalgia for another era” (167, poliquin)
27. Perhaps the animals on display in the museum were hunted to extinction, or are endangered, so they can no longer be legally sold or created (Marbury, 10-12).
Illusive proximity to nature thru animal objects
Eco-humor - taxidermy on cover of book






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