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Green light : toward an art of evolution / George Gessert

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Author:
Gessert, George 1944-  Search this
Physical description:
xxiii, 233 p. : ill ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
2010
C2010
Contents:
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
Topic:
Art and biology  Search this
Biotechnology in art  Search this
Nature (Aesthetics)  Search this
Evolution (Biology)--Philosophy  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_940351