A display on page 97 of the Curiosity CLXXV catalogue

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Description

"A stainless-steel dilator from the Drennan collection, a carded set of glass slides of xenopus heart sections from the Medical Microbiology collection, a 19th century game called 'Frogs and Toads' from Special Collections and a wax model of an embryo, also from Drennan. This ‘amphibian’-inspired display showcases many qualities of the curatorial method, such as visual quotation (the combination of these materials foregrounds that the shape of the dilator resembles a frog), analogy (the wax embryo, dilator and frogs allude to the resemblance between sperm and tadpoles) and juxtaposition (the frog as a scientific topic dissected and contained in the slides, and the frog as a board piece in a game played by children)" (Liebenberg 2021: 183).

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https://issuu.com/cca.uct/docs/curiosity_for_web

Creator

Pippa Skotnes See all items with this value

Fritha Langerman See all items with this value

Gwen van Embden See all items with this value

Date Created

2004

Source

Skotnes, P., Langerman, F. & Van Embden, G. 2004. Curiosity CLXXV: A paper cabinet. Cape Town: LLAREC Series in Visual History.

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sperm See all items with this value

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Exhibition

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99_LBNNIN001

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