Green light : toward an art of evolution
- Title
- Green light : toward an art of evolution / George Gessert.
- Published by
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2010.
- Format
- Book/text
- Author
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Details
- Description
- xxiii, 233 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Series statement
- Leonardo
- Uniform title
- Leonardo (Series) (Cambridge, Mass.)
- Alternative title
- Toward an art of evolution
- Subject
- 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.
- Call number
- JQE 10-212
- Language
- English
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- LCCN
- 2009037617
- ISBN
- 9780262014144 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0262014149 (hardcover : alk. paper)