Animals, Plants and Afterimages : The Art and Science of Representing Extinction |
Autore | Bienvenue Valérie |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berghahn Books, 2022 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (460 pages) |
Disciplina | 704.9/43 |
Altri autori (Persone) | ChareNicholas |
Soggetto topico |
Art and biology
Extinct animals in art Extinct animals - Exhibitions Extinct plants in art Extinct plants - Exhibitions Museum techniques - Moral and ethical aspects NATURE / Endangered Species |
Soggetto non controllato |
Social Science
Media Studies Science Environmental Science Nature Endangered Species |
ISBN | 1-80073-426-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations, Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction. Representing Extinction: Art, Science and Afterimages -- Part I. Dialogues about Extinction -- Chapter 1. The Dinosaur as Cultural Symbol and Totem: W. J. T. Mitchell in Conversation -- Chapter 2. Visualizing Extinction: Harriet Ritvo in Conversation -- Chapter 3. ‘Putting Nature Back Together Again’: Stuart Pimm in Conversation -- Part II. Indigenous Peoples and Extinction -- Chapter 4. The Beothuk, the Great Auk and the Newfoundland Wolf: Animal and Human Genocide in Canada’s Easternmost Province -- Chapter 5. Cultural Memory of Recent Extinctions: A Chinese Perspective -- Chapter 6. Grief, Extinction and Bilhaa (Abalone) -- Part III. Representing Avian and Insect Extinctions -- Chapter 7. Sparrows with Teeth and Claws? Reconstructing the Cretaceous Enantiornithes (Aves: Ornithothoraces) -- Chapter 8. Rare Birds and Rare Books: The Species as Work of Art -- Chapter 9. Th e Species Revivalist Sublime: Encountering the Kaua‘i ‘Ō‘ō Bird in Jakob Kudsk Steensen’s Re-Animated -- Chapter 10. Insects, Spiders, Snails and Empathy: Representing Invertebrate Extinctions in Natural History Museums -- Part IV. Representing Extinct Plants and Fungi -- Chapter 11. Reconstructing Lycopsids Lost to the Deep Past -- Chapter 12. Ellis Rowan, Extinction and the Politics of Flower Painting -- Chapter 13. Towards Extinction: Mapping the Vulnerable, Th reatened and Critically Endangered Plant in ‘Moments of Friction’ -- Chapter 14. Sweetness, Power, Yeasts and Entomo-terroir -- Part V. Representing Extinct Mammals -- Chapter 15. Animal Extinction, Film and the Death Drive -- Chapter 16. Tasmanian Tiger: Precious Little Remains -- Chapter 17. From the General to the Particular: Piecing Together the Life and Afterlife of A544, Louis XVI’s Quagga -- Part VI. Exhibiting Extinction -- Chapter 18. Three Variations on the Theme of Extinction: Looking Anew at the Art and Science of Mark Dion -- Chapter 19. The Exhibition of Extinct Species: A Critique -- Chapter 20. Exhibiting Extinction: Thylacines in Museum Display -- Afterword. After Extinction -- Notes on Contributors -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910774755803321 |
Bienvenue Valérie | ||
Berghahn Books, 2022 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Art as organism : biology and the evolution of the digital image / / Charissa N. Terranova |
Autore | Terranova Charissa N. |
Edizione | [First edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, England : , : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (338 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 709.04 |
Collana | International library of modern and contemporary art |
Soggetto topico |
Art and biology
Modern art - 20th century Modernism (Art) |
ISBN |
1-350-98541-4
0-85772-807-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preface: modernism after the affective turn -- Introduction: the haptic unconscious: László Moholy-Nagy's organismic aesthetics -- Bauhaus biology: the beginnings of biofunctionalism -- György Kepes and the light image as bio-image: pop art-and-science, integration, and distribution -- The distributed image of the city: the collaboration between György Kepes and Kevin Lynch -- Wet perception: op art and new tendencies, between the Gestalt and ecological psychology -- The digital image in art: the generative turn, computational and biological -- Epilogue: political paths -- past and future. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910154975103321 |
Terranova Charissa N. | ||
London, England : , : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, , 2016 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Green light [[electronic resource] ] : toward an art of evolution / / George Gessert |
Autore | Gessert George <1944-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (260 p.) |
Disciplina | 701/.08 |
Collana | Leonardo books |
Soggetto topico |
Art and biology
Biotechnology in art Nature (Aesthetics) Evolution (Biology) - Philosophy |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-63820-3
9786612638206 0-262-26589-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910458340103321 |
Gessert George <1944-> | ||
Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Green light : toward an art of evolution / / George Gessert |
Autore | Gessert George <1944-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (260 p.) |
Disciplina | 701/.08 |
Collana | Leonardo |
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 |
ISBN |
0-262-29158-4
1-282-63820-3 9786612638206 0-262-26589-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Altri titoli varianti | Toward an art of evolution |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791355603321 |
Gessert George <1944-> | ||
Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Green light : toward an art of evolution / / George Gessert |
Autore | Gessert George <1944-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (260 p.) |
Disciplina | 701/.08 |
Collana | Leonardo |
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 |
ISBN |
0-262-29158-4
1-282-63820-3 9786612638206 0-262-26589-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Altri titoli varianti | Toward an art of evolution |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910820586503321 |
Gessert George <1944-> | ||
Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The seductions of Darwin : art, evolution, neuroscience / / Matthew Rampley |
Autore | Rampley Matthew |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | University Park, Pennsylvania : , : Pennsylvania State University Press, , [2017] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (ix, 189 pages ) |
Disciplina | 701 |
Soggetto topico |
Art and biology
Neurosciences and the arts Art - Philosophy Evolution (Biology) in art |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-271-07900-2
0-271-07902-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Art, biology, and the aesthetics of selection -- Memes and trees : art history as evolution -- Brains, caves, and phalanxes : neuroaesthetics and neuroarthistory -- Self-organizing evolution : art as a system. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910480018303321 |
Rampley Matthew | ||
University Park, Pennsylvania : , : Pennsylvania State University Press, , [2017] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The seductions of Darwin : art, evolution, neuroscience / / Matthew Rampley |
Autore | Rampley Matthew |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | University Park, Pennsylvania : , : Pennsylvania State University Press, , [2017] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (ix, 189 pages ) |
Disciplina | 701 |
Soggetto topico |
Art and biology
Neurosciences and the arts Art - Philosophy Evolution (Biology) in art |
Soggetto non controllato |
Charles Darwin
Darwinism art biological science biology cultures histpry humanities memes neuroaesthetics neuroarthistory neuroscience scholarship science |
ISBN |
0-271-07900-2
0-271-07902-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Art, biology, and the aesthetics of selection -- Memes and trees : art history as evolution -- Brains, caves, and phalanxes : neuroaesthetics and neuroarthistory -- Self-organizing evolution : art as a system. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792568003321 |
Rampley Matthew | ||
University Park, Pennsylvania : , : Pennsylvania State University Press, , [2017] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The seductions of Darwin : art, evolution, neuroscience / / Matthew Rampley |
Autore | Rampley Matthew |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | University Park, Pennsylvania : , : Pennsylvania State University Press, , [2017] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (ix, 189 pages ) |
Disciplina | 701 |
Soggetto topico |
Art and biology
Neurosciences and the arts Art - Philosophy Evolution (Biology) in art |
Soggetto non controllato |
Charles Darwin
Darwinism art biological science biology cultures histpry humanities memes neuroaesthetics neuroarthistory neuroscience scholarship science |
ISBN |
0-271-07900-2
0-271-07902-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Art, biology, and the aesthetics of selection -- Memes and trees : art history as evolution -- Brains, caves, and phalanxes : neuroaesthetics and neuroarthistory -- Self-organizing evolution : art as a system. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910807992503321 |
Rampley Matthew | ||
University Park, Pennsylvania : , : Pennsylvania State University Press, , [2017] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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