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Green light : toward an art of evolution

Title
  1. Green light : toward an art of evolution / George Gessert.
Published by
  1. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2010.
Format
  1. Book/text
Author
  1. Gessert, George, 1944-

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Description
  1. xxiii, 233 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Series statement
  1. Leonardo
Uniform title
  1. Leonardo (Series) (Cambridge, Mass.)
Alternative title
  1. Toward an art of evolution
Subject
  1. Art and biology.
  2. Biotechnology in art.
  3. Nature (Aesthetics)
  4. Evolution (Biology) -- Philosophy.
Contents
  1. 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.
Call number
  1. JQE 10-212
Language
  1. English
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN
  1. 2009037617
ISBN
  1. 9780262014144 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  2. 0262014149 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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