Green light
Subtitle: toward an art of evolution
By: George Gessert.
Series: Leonardo books
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780262014144
Subjects: Art and biology; Biotechnology in art; Nature (Aesthetics); Evolution (Biology) -- Philosophy
Other titles: Toward an art of evolution
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ch. 1. Divine plants and magical animals; title: Ch. 2. Aesthetic effects of domestication; title: Ch. 3. The rainforests of domestication; title: Ch. 4. The rise of ornamental plants; title: Ch. 5. Darwin's sublime; title: Ch. 6. Playing God; title: Ch. 7. Standards of excellence; title: Ch. 8. Doubles; title: Ch. 9. Kitsch plants; title: Ch. 10. Bastard flowers; title: Ch. 11. Biotechnology in the garden; title: Ch. 12. Recent art involving DNA; title: Ch. 13. Naming life; title: Ch. 14. Anthropocentrism and genetic art; title: Ch.15. The angel of extinction; title: Ch. 16. Seven breeding complexes; title: Ch. 17. The slowest art; title: Ch. 18. Breeding for wildness.