Why look at plants? : the botanical emergence in contemporary art /

Why look at plants? : the botanical emergence in contemporary art /

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...

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Other Authors: Aloi, Giovanni., Picard, Caroline., Davis, Lucy, 1970-

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018.

Series: Critical Plant Studies 5.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2018, ISBN: 9789004353350.

Subjects:

Plants in art.
Arts, Modern > 20th century > Themes, motives.
Arts, Modern > 21st century > Themes, motives.
Plants and civilization.

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Call Number: NX650.P53 W49 2018

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction: Why Look at Plants? /
  •  Giovanni Aloi
  • 1 Lost in the Post-Sublime Forest /
  •  Giovanni Aloi
  • 2 The Humblest Props Now Play a Role /
  • Caroline Picard
  • 3 Ungrid-able Ecologies: Becoming Sensor in a Black Oak Savannah /
  •  Natasha Myers
  • 4 An Open Book of Grass /
  •  Jenny Kendler
  • 5 Trees: Upside-Down, Inside-Out, and Moving /
  •  Giovanni Aloi
  • 6 Animation, Animism ... Dukun Dukun and DNA /
  •  Lucy Davis
  • 7 Tree Wound Portraits /
  •  Shannon Lee Castleman
  • 8 Contested Sites: Forest as Uncommon Ground /
  •  Greg Ruffing
  • 9 Quercus velutina, Art of Fiction, No. 11111011 /
  •  Lindsey French
  • 10 Falling from Grace /
  •  Giovanni Aloi
  • 11 Hortus Conclusus: The Garden of Earthly Mind /
  •  Wendy Wheeler
  • 12 Eden's Heirs: Biopolitics and Vegetal Affinities in the Gardens of Literature /
  •  Joela Jacobs
  • 13 Thoreau's Beans /
  •  Michael Marder
  • 14 The Greenhouse Effects /
  •  Giovanni Aloi
  • 15 Solarise /
  •  Luftwerk
  • 16 The Glass Shields the Eyes of the Plant: Darwin's Glasshouse Study /
  •  Heidi Norton
  • 17 The Lichen Museum /
  • Laurie Palmer
  • 18 Hyperplant Shelf-Life /
  •  Giovanni Aloi
  • 19 Life in the Aisles /
  •  Linda Tegg
  • 20 Greenbots Where the Grass Is Greener: An Interview with Katherine Behar /
  •  Katherine Behar , Fatma Çolakoğlu and Ulya Soley
  • 21 Home Depot Throwing Out Plants /
  • Various Contributors
  • 22 Presence, Bareness, and Being-With /
  •  Giovanni Aloi
  • 23 Houseplants as Fictional Subjects /
  •  Susan McHugh
  • 24 Seeing Green: The Climbing Other /
  •  Dawn Sanders
  • 25 Plant Radio /
  •  Amanda White
  • 26 Psychoactives and Biogenetics /
  •  Giovanni Aloi
  • 27 Of Plants and Robots: Art, Architecture and Technoscience for Mixed Societies /
  •  Monika Bakke
  • 28 Boundary Plants /
  •  Sara Black
  • 29 The Illustrated Herbal /
  •  Joshi Radin
  • 30 (Brief) Encounters /
  •  Giovanni Aloi
  • 31 Places of Maybe: Plants "Making Do" Without the Belly of the Beast /
  •  Andrew S. Yang
  • 32 The Neophyte /
  • Lois Weinberger
  • 33 Herbarium Perrine: Interview with Mark Dion /
  • Mark Dion and Giovanni Aloi
  • 34 Burning Flowers: Interview with Mat Collishaw /
  • Mat Collishaw and Giovanni Aloi
  • 35 A Program for Plants: In Conversation, Coda  /
  •  Giovanni Aloi , Brian M. John , Linda Tegg and Joshi Radin
  • Bibliography
  • Index.