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100 1 _aAloi, Giovanni.
245 1 0 _aWhy Look at Plants? :
_bThe Botanical Emergence in Contemporary Art.
250 _a1st ed.
264 1 _aBoston :
_bBRILL,
_c2019.
264 4 _c©2019.
300 _a1 online resource (306 pages)
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aCritical Plant Studies ;
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505 0 _aIntro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- About this Book -- Introduction -- Why Look at Plants? -- Giovanni Aloi -- Part 1 -- Forest -- Chapter 1 -- Lost in the Post-Sublime Forest -- Giovanni Aloi -- Chapter 2 -- The Humblest Props Now Play a Role -- Caroline Picard -- Chapter 3 -- Ungrid-able Ecologies: Becoming Sensor in a Black Oak Savannah -- Natasha Myers -- Chapter 4 -- An Open Book of Grass -- Jenny Kendler -- Part 2 -- Trees -- Chapter 5 -- Trees: Upside-Down, Inside-Out, and Moving -- Giovanni Aloi -- Chapter 6 -- Animation, Animism … Dukun Dukun &amp -- DNA -- Lucy Davis -- Chapter 7 -- Tree Wound Portraits -- Shannon Lee Castleman -- Chapter 8 -- Contested Sites: Forest as Uncommon Ground -- Greg Ruffing -- Chapter 9 -- Quercus velutina, Art of Fiction, No. 11111011 -- Lindsey French -- Part 3 -- Garden -- Chapter 10 -- Falling from Grace -- Giovanni Aloi -- Chapter 11 -- Hortus Conclusus: The Garden of Earthly Mind -- Wendy Wheeler -- Chapter 12 -- Eden's Heirs: Biopolitics and Vegetal Affinities in the Gardens of Literature -- Joela Jacobs -- Chapter 13 -- Thoreau's Beans -- Michael Marder -- Part 4 -- Greenhouse -- Chapter 14 -- The Greenhouse Effects -- Giovanni Aloi -- Chapter 15 -- Solarise -- Luftwerk -- Chapter 16 -- The Glass Shields the Eyes of the Plant: Darwin's Glasshouse Study -- Heidi Norton -- Chapter 17 -- The Lichen Museum -- Laurie Palmer -- Part 5 -- Store -- Chapter 18 -- Hyperplant Shelf-Life -- Giovanni Aloi -- Chapter 19 -- Life in the Aisles -- Linda Tegg -- Chapter 20 -- Greenbots Where the Grass Is Greener: An Interview with Katherine Behar -- Katherine Behar, Fatma Çolakoğlu, and Ulya Soley -- Chapter 21 -- Home Depot Throwing Out Plants -- Various Contributors -- Part 6 -- House -- Chapter 22 -- Presence, Bareness, and Being-With -- Giovanni Aloi -- Chapter 23.
505 8 _aHouseplants as Fictional Subjects -- Susan McHugh -- Chapter 24 -- Seeing Green: The Climbing Other -- Dawn Sanders -- Chapter 25 -- Plant Radio -- Amanda White -- Part 7 -- Laboratory -- Chapter 26 -- Psychoactives and Biogenetics -- Giovanni Aloi -- Chapter 27 -- Of Plants and Robots: Art, Architecture and Technoscience for Mixed Societies -- Monika Bakke -- Chapter 28 -- Boundary Plants -- Sara Black -- Chapter 29 -- The Illustrated Herbal -- Joshi Radin -- Part 8 -- Of Other Spaces -- Chapter 30 -- (Brief) Encounters -- Giovanni Aloi -- Chapter 31 -- Places of Maybe: Plants "Making Do" Without the Belly of the Beast -- Andrew S. Yang -- Chapter 32 -- The Neophyte -- Lois Weinberger -- Chapter 33 -- Herbarium Perrine: Interview with Mark Dion -- Mark Dion and Giovanni Aloi -- Chapter 34 -- Burning Flowers: Interview with Mat Collishaw -- Mat Collishaw and Giovanni Aloi -- Chapter 35 -- A Program for Plants: In Conversation, Coda -- Giovanni Aloi, Brian M. John, Linda Tegg, and Joshi Radin -- Bibliography -- Index.
520 _aWhy Look at Plants? proposes a thought-provoking look into the emerging cultural politics of plant-presence in contemporary art through the original contributions of artists, scholars, and curators who have creatively engaged with the ultimate otherness of plants in their work.
588 _aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aPlants in art.
650 0 _aArts, Modern-20th century-Themes, motives.
650 0 _aArts, Modern-21st century-Themes, motives.
650 0 _aPlants and civilization.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aAloi, Giovanni
_tWhy Look at Plants?
_dBoston : BRILL,c2019
_z9789004375246
797 2 _aProQuest (Firm)
830 0 _aCritical Plant Studies
856 4 0 _uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=5606124
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