Green light : toward an art of evolution /
How humans' aesthetic perceptions have shaped other life forms, from racehorses to ornamental plants.
| Основен автор: | Gessert, George, 1944- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
℗♭2010.
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| Серия: |
Leonardo (Series) (Cambridge, Mass.)
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| Онлайн достъп: |
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Print version::
Green light. |
Съдържание:
- 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.