Editing Taxidermy (section)

===Rogue taxidermy===
[[File:Stuffed griffin.jpg|thumb|An example of rogue taxidermy in the form of a [[griffin]], exhibited in the [[Zoological Museum, Copenhagen]]]]
{{for|the album by folk punk band Days N Daze|Rogue Taxidermy (album)}}
Rogue taxidermy (sometimes referred to as "taxidermy art"<ref name=Crossroads>{{Cite news|url= http://www.startribune.com/rogue-taxidermy-at-the-crossroads-of-art-and-wildlife/279318712/|title=Rogue Taxidermy, at the crossroads of art and wildlife|last=Ode|first=Kim|date=15 October 2014|work=[[Star Tribune]]|department=Variety section|access-date=12 December 2016}}</ref>) is a form of [[mixed media]] [[sculpture]].<ref name="Crave">{{cite web|url=http://www.craveonline.com/art/940843-profile-sarina-brewer-rogue-taxidermy|title=Crave Profile: Sarina Brewer and Rogue Taxidermy|last=Rivera|first=Erica|publisher=[[CraveOnline]]LLC|date=8 April 2016|website=CraveOnline|access-date=12 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161201064100/http://www.craveonline.com/art/940843-profile-sarina-brewer-rogue-taxidermy|archive-date=1 December 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Dirge 2016">{{cite web|url=http://www.dirgemag.com/renaissance-handcrafts-fine-arts-celebrates-dark-culture/|title=The Renaissance of Handcrafts and Fine Arts Celebrates Dark Culture|last=Lundy|first=Patricia|date=16 February 2016|website=Dirge magazine|access-date=3 November 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170112131437/http://www.dirgemag.com/renaissance-handcrafts-fine-arts-celebrates-dark-culture/|archive-date=12 January 2017}}</ref> Rogue taxidermy art references traditional trophy or natural history museum taxidermy, but is not always constructed out of taxidermied animals;<ref name="Crave"/><ref name="Dirge 2016"/> it can be constructed entirely from synthetic materials.<ref name="Crave"/><ref name=Audubon>{{cite web|url=http://www.audubon.org/news/when-taxidermy-goes-rogue/|title=When Taxidermy Goes Rogue|last=Langston|first=Erica|website=Audubon|publisher=[[National Audubon Society]]|date=30 March 2016|access-date=24 November 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160411142406/http://www.audubon.org/news/when-taxidermy-goes-rogue/|archive-date=11 April 2016}}</ref> Additionally, rogue taxidermy is not necessarily [[Figurative art|figurative]], as it can be abstract and does not need to resemble an animal.<ref name="Crave"/> It can be a small decorative object or a large-scale room-sized installation. There is a very broad spectrum of styles within the genre, some of which falls into the category of mainstream art.<ref name="Crave"/><ref name="Brown University">{{cite web|url=https://www.brown.edu/campus-life/arts/bell-gallery/exhibitions/dead-animals-or-curious-occurrence-taxidermy-contemporary-art|title=The Curious Occurrence Of Taxidermy In Contemporary Art|author=<!--Not stated-->|date=23 January 2016|website=Brown University|publisher=David Winton Bell Gallery|access-date=24 November 2017}}</ref> "Rogue taxidermy" describes a wide variety of work, including work that is classified and exhibited as fine art.<ref name=Audubon/> Neither the term, nor the genre, emerged from the world of traditional taxidermy.<ref name="Dirge 2016"/> The genre was born from forms of fine art that utilize some of the components found in the construction of a traditional taxidermy mount.<ref name="Dirge 2016"/> The term "rogue taxidermy" was coined in 2004 by an artist collective called The Minnesota Association of Rogue Taxidermists.<ref name=Audubon/><ref name=Vice>{{Cite news|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/women-are-dominating-the-rogue-taxidermy-scene-666/|title=Women Are Dominating the Rogue Taxidermy Scene|last=Voon|first=Claire|date=14 October 2014|work=[[Vice (magazine)|Vice]]|access-date=19 January 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011192501/https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4w75jj/women-are-dominating-the-rogue-taxidermy-scene-666|archive-date=11 October 2017}}</ref>
The Minneapolis-based group was founded by artists [[Sarina Brewer]], Scott Bibus, and Robert Marbury as a means to unite their respective mediums and differing styles of sculpture.<ref name=Vice/><ref name="New York Times">"{{Cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/03/arts/design/head-of-goat-tail-of-fish-more-than-a-touch-of-weirdness.html|title=Head of Goat, Tail of Fish, More Than a Touch of Weirdness|last=Topcik|first=Joel|date=3 January 2005|website=The New York Times|access-date=19 January 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150529170848/http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/03/arts/design/head-of-goat-tail-of-fish-more-than-a-touch-of-weirdness.html|archive-date=29 May 2015}}</ref>
The definition of rogue taxidermy set forth by the individuals who formed the genre (Brewer, Bibus, and Marbury) is: "A genre of pop-surrealist art characterized by mixed media sculptures containing conventional taxidermy-related materials that are used in an unconventional manner".<ref name=Crossroads/><ref name=Culturised>{{cite web|url=http://www.culturised.co.uk/2017/06/morality-and-taxidermy-in-art-between-monstrous-and-the-beautiful|title=Mortality and Taxidermy in Art|last=Gyldenstrom|first=Freja|publisher=Culturised|date=17 June 2017|website=culturised.co.uk|access-date=19 January 2018|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171003180624/http://www.culturised.co.uk/2017/06/morality-and-taxidermy-in-art-between-monstrous-and-the-beautiful|archive-date=3 October 2017}}</ref><ref name="Sarina Brewer Art">{{cite web|url=http://www.sarina-brewer.com|title=The History of Rogue Taxidermy|website=The Taxidermy Art of Sarina Brewer|access-date=19 January 2018}}</ref> Interest in the collective's work gave rise to an artistic movement referred to as the Rogue Taxidermy art movement, or alternately, the Taxidermy Art movement.<ref name="Dirge 2016"/><ref name=Culturised/><ref name="illusion magazine">{{cite web|url=http://illusion.scene360.com/weird/90764/rogue-taxidermy-art|title=Rogue Taxidermy Artists Who Create Imaginative Sculptures|last=Evans|first=Hayley|publisher=Scene 360 LLC|date=22 February 2016|website=illusion magazine|access-date=19 January 2018|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171018141447/http://illusion.scene360.com/weird/90764/rogue-taxidermy-art|archive-date=18 October 2017}}</ref><ref name=Niittynen>{{cite journal|last=Niittynen|first=Miranda|date=2015|title=Animal Magic; Sculpting Queer Encounters through Rogue Taxidermy Art|url=http://genderforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/201509CompleteIssueAnimals.pdf|journal=Gender Forum: Internet Journal for Gender Studies|volume=55|pages=14–34|issn=1613-1878|access-date=19 January 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171002215039/http://genderforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/201509CompleteIssueAnimals.pdf|archive-date=2 October 2017}}</ref> Apart from describing a genre of fine art,<ref name="Dirge 2016"/><ref name="Crave"/><ref name="illusion magazine"/> the term "rogue taxidermy" has expanded in recent years and has also become an adjective applied to unorthodox forms of traditional taxidermy such as [[#Anthropomorphic taxidermy|anthropomorphic mounts]] and composite mounts where two or more animals are spliced together.<ref name=CataWiki>{{cite web|url=https://www.catawiki.com/stories/2143-chimaera-taxidermy-the-weird-and-the-wonderful-07-03-2017|title=Chimaera Taxidermy – The Weird and the Wonderful|last=Leggett|first=David|publisher=CataWiki Auction House|date=7 April 2017|website=CataWiki|access-date=19 January 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180119210532/https://www.catawiki.com/stories/2143-chimaera-taxidermy-the-weird-and-the-wonderful-07-03-2017|archive-date=19 January 2018}}</ref><ref name="CBC radio">{{cite web|url=http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-october-25-2017-1.4369486/wednesday-october-25-2017-full-episode-transcript-1.4371965|title=Dead Animals into Art|author=<!--Not stated-->|date=25 October 2017|website=CBC Radio|publisher=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|access-date=19 January 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171026125304/http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-october-25-2017-1.4369486/wednesday-october-25-2017-full-episode-transcript-1.4371965|archive-date=26 October 2017}}</ref> (e.g.; sideshow gaffs of conjoined "[[freak]]" animals and mounts of [[jackalopes]] or other fictional creatures) In addition to being the impetus for the art movement, the inception of the genre also marked a resurgence of interest in conventional (traditional) forms of taxidermy.<ref name=CataWiki/><ref name="CBC radio"/>