Why Look at Plants? by Giovanni Aloi
Why Look at Plants? proposes a thought-provoking 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.-
Time Is a Plant
- Floral Metaphors on the Silver Screen
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Human-Plant Entanglement: Thinking with Plants in the Anthropocene
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Verdant Narratives
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Representations of Plants in Australian Literature
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Shaped by Vegetal Matters
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Forest Family
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The Plant Contract
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Being Algae
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Flowers and Honeybees
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Media, Modernity and Dynamic Plants in Early 20th Century German Culture
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Plants and Literature
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Ethnomedicinal Practices and Application of Traditional Medicinal Plants in Contemporary Indian Society
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Human-Plant Entanglement and Vegetal Agency in the Poetry of Thomas Hardy and Sylvia Plath
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Critical Plant Studies in Taiwan
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Cartographies of Postcolonial Vegetal Politics
The emergence of the botanical from quiet, passive existence that constantly hums around us to active/interactive politicization on gallery walls, in installations, and in critical studies is so potent that it has become a full-fledged art movementThis book both unravels and invites an artistic reimagining of the human relationship to plants, in all its manifestations. [...] in light of the ongoing environmental crisis, the book is invaluable. [... It] could not be more timely. - J. Natal, Columbia College Chicago, in: Choice Magazine, Vol. 57 No. 1 (September 2019) In sum, Why Look at Plants? is essential reading for anyone interested in the role of the arts in considering human/non-human interactions, plant blindness, posthumanist thought, or the myriad implications of the Anthropocene. - Stephen Goddard, in: Esse, issue 99 (2020), p. 111.
Giovanni Aloi is an art historian in modern and contemporary art specializing in the representation of animals and plants in contemporary art. Aloi currently teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Sotheby’s Institute of Art New York and London, and Tate Galleries. He is the Editor in Chief of Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture (www.antennae.org.uk). He is the author of Art & Animals (2011) and Speculative Taxidermy: Natural History, Animal Surfaces, and Art in the Anthropocene (2018). With Caroline Picard, Aloi is the co-editor of the University of Minnesota Press series Art after Nature.
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| ISBN 13 | 9789004375246 |
| ISBN 10 | 9004375244 |
| Title | Why Look at Plants? |
| Author | Giovanni Aloi |
| Series | Critical Plant Studies |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Brill |
| Year published | 2019-01-22 |
| Number of pages | 308 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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