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 | ||
|
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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