Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.A quintessential feature in Western gardens and landscaping, the lawn is now at the center of a climate change controversy. The large...Lasīt vairāk
This groundbreaking volume unearths the representation of plants and their vital impact on art, thereby advocating for the botanical worlds legitimate place in art history. This groundbreaking volume unearths the representation of plants...Lasīt vairāk
Entertaining, informative, and packed with important but lesser-known stories about how artists became famous, I Am Not an Artist is a critical appraisal of the role of the artist through time. At turns a critical framework for examining what consti...Lasīt vairāk
Romanticized notions of how one becomes an artist have long been questioned, so why do we still fetishize them in popular culture, turning a blind eye to the politics of exclusionism that characterize the art world and conforming our creative potent...Lasīt vairāk
Photographers from Anna Atkins to Jochen Lempert illustrate our fascination with plants in the age of technologyFrom scientific discoveries to animist beliefs, plants are an inexhaustible source of stories that reveal our most intima...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 07-Nov-2023, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Minnesota Press, ISBN-13: 9781517913076)
Interdisciplinary essays on Manuela Infantes award-winning play explore the relationship between critical plant studies and performance art in the Anthropocene Since its first staging in 2016, Estado Vegetal, M...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 07-Nov-2023, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Minnesota Press, ISBN-13: 9781517913083)
Since its first staging in 2016, Estado Vegetal, Manuela Infantes riveting piece of experimental performance art, has expanded philosophical thinking into a fully-fledged artistic inquiry into nonanthropocentric being. Bringing together an array of...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 04-Jul-2023, Hardback, Izdevniecība: MIT Press, ISBN-13: 9780262047791)
A reader of previously published and new material (interviews with artists and theorists) devoted to the new and growing field of critical plant studies, and a reader that practices what it covers by arranging and intertwining its contents through a...Lasīt vairāk
The Invention of Nature is a complete visual journey through humankinds depiction of animal and plant life, from the very first cave paintings made over 30,000 years ago to the present.With over 300 images covering cabinets of curiosi...Lasīt vairāk
