These Are Not Toys: A Sculptural and Photographic Exploration of Popular Palaeontology Representation in Museums and Toys Pre-Jurassic Park
| aut.embargo | No | |
| aut.thirdpc.contains | Yes | |
| aut.thirdpc.permission | Yes | |
| aut.thirdpc.removed | Yes | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Amundsen, Fiona | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Clemens, Eddie | |
| dc.contributor.author | Cook, Jacob | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-09-13T02:51:24Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-09-13T02:51:24Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This practice-led research explores the portrayal of prehistoric animals in toys, palaeoart, and museum displays pre the 1993 film Jurassic Park. Of interest is the ever-changing nature of pop-palaeontological culture and how this constant change is reflected in representations and reconstructions of prehistoric life. My research positions 1993 as a division between a pre-digital and digital age of pop-palaeontological culture and museum display methods, and identifies their common pre-digital physical properties. The project seeks to convey that within this context, outdated representations of pop-palaeontological culture and methods of museum display, do not necessarily infer irrelevant knowledge. By constructing a fictitious museum—called The Pop-Palaeo Museum—that uses multimedia sculptural and photographic methods, I express what is lost through a disregard for pre-digital museum displays and highlight the dinosaur as an ever-changing form. Specifically, my methods draw on analogue techniques, which are reworked through contemporary processes aligned with pre-1993 representations of prehistoric life. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10292/16682 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Auckland University of Technology | |
| dc.rights.accessrights | OpenAccess | |
| dc.title | These Are Not Toys: A Sculptural and Photographic Exploration of Popular Palaeontology Representation in Museums and Toys Pre-Jurassic Park | |
| dc.type | Thesis | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | Auckland University of Technology | |
| thesis.degree.name | Master of Visual Arts |