Green light : toward an art of evolution /
Gessert, George,1944-
Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT Press,
c2010.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Art and biology.
Biotechnology in art.
Nature (Aesthetics)
Evolution (Biology)