Green light : toward an art of evolution /

How humans' aesthetic perceptions have shaped other life forms, from racehorses to ornamental plants.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gessert, George, 1944-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2010.
Colección:Leonardo (Series) (Cambridge, Mass.)
Temas:
Art and biology.
Biotechnology in art.
Nature (Aesthetics)
Evolution (Biology) > Philosophy.
Art et biologie.
Biotechnologie dans l'art.
Nature (Esthétique)
ART > General.
Art and biology
Biotechnology in art
Evolution (Biology) > Philosophy
DIGITAL HUMANITIES & NEW MEDIA/New Media Art
BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/Botany
PHILOSOPHY/Aesthetics
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Divine plants and magical animals
  • Aesthetic effects of domestication
  • The rainforests of domestication
  • The rise of ornamental plants
  • Darwin's sublime
  • Playing God
  • Standards of excellence
  • Doubles
  • Kitsch plants
  • Bastard flowers, genetic goofies, and Freud's bow wows
  • Biotechnology in the garden
  • Recent art involving DNA
  • Naming life
  • Anthropocentrism and genetic art
  • The angel of extinction
  • Seven breeding complexes
  • The slowest art
  • Breeding for wildness.

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