| Description |
1 online resource (xxv, 280 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Critical plant studies : philosophy, literature, culture ; volume 5
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Critical plant studies ; 5.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Lost in the Post-Sublime Forest / Giovanni Aloi -- The Humblest Props Now Play a Role / Caroline Picard -- Trees : Upside-Down, Inside-Out, and Moving / Giovanni Aloi -- Animation, Animism ... Dukun Dukun & DNA / Lucy Davis -- Falling from Grace / Giovanni Aloi -- Hortus Conclusus : The Garden of Earthly Mind / Wendy Wheeler -- (Brief) Encounters / Giovanni Aloi -- Places of Maybe : Plants "Making Do" Without the Belly of the Beast / Andrew Yang. |
| Summary |
Why Look at Plants?' proposes a thought-provoking and fascinating look into the emerging cultural politics of plant-presence in contemporary art. Through the original contributions of artists, scholars, and curators who have creatively engaged with the ultimate otherness of plants in their work, this volume maps and problematizes new intra-active, agential interconnectedness involving human-non-human biosystems central to artistic and philosophical discourses of the Anthropocene. 0Plant's fixity, perceived passivity, and resilient silence have relegated the vegetal world to the cultural background of human civilization. However, the recent emergence of plants in the gallery space constitutes a wake-up-call to reappraise this relationship at a time of deep ecological and ontological crisis. Why Look at Plants? challenges readers' pre-established notions through a diverse gathering of insights, stories, experiences, perspectives, and arguments encompassing multiple disciplines, media, and methodologies. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Plants in art.
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Plants in art. |
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Arts, Modern -- 20th century -- Themes, motives.
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Arts, Modern. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Themes, motives. |
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Arts, Modern -- 21st century -- Themes, motives.
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| Chronological Term |
21st century |
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Plants and civilization.
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Plants and civilization. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-2099 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Aloi, Giovanni, editor, contributor.
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Picard, Caroline, contributor.
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Davis, Lucy, 1970- contributor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Why look at plants? Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018 9789004375246 (DLC) 2018041943 |
| ISBN |
9789004375253 (electronic book) |
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9004375252 (electronic book) |
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9789004375246 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
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