Green light : toward an art of evolution / / George Gessert
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| Autore: |
Gessert George <1944->
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| Titolo: |
Green light : toward an art of evolution / / George Gessert
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2010 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (260 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 701/.08 |
| Soggetto topico: | Art and biology |
| Biotechnology in art | |
| Nature (Aesthetics) | |
| Evolution (Biology) - Philosophy | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | DIGITAL HUMANITIES & NEW MEDIA/New Media Art |
| BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/Botany | |
| PHILOSOPHY/Aesthetics | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | How humans' aesthetic perceptions have shaped other life forms, from racehorses to ornamental plants. |
| Altri titoli varianti: | Toward an art of evolution |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Green light |
| ISBN: | 0-262-29158-4 |
| 1-282-63820-3 | |
| 9786612638206 | |
| 0-262-26589-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910791355603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Leonardo books.