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OverviewWinner of the 2019 Outstanding Academic Titles award in Choice, a publishing unit of the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) 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 volume maps and problematizes new intra-active, agential interconnectedness involving human-non-human biosystems central to artistic and philosophical discourses of the Anthropocene. Plant’s fixity, perceived passivity, and resilient silence have relegated the vegetal world to the cultural background of human civilization. However, the recent emergence of plants in the gallery space constitutes a wake-up-call to reappraise this relationship at a time of deep ecological and ontological crisis. Why Look at Plants? challenges readers’ pre-established notions through a diverse gathering of insights, stories, experiences, perspectives, and arguments encompassing multiple disciplines, media, and methodologies. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Giovanni AloiPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 5 Weight: 1.067kg ISBN: 9789004375246ISBN 10: 9004375244 Pages: 282 Publication Date: 22 January 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments List of Figures Notes on Contributors About This Book Introduction: Why Look at Plants? Giovanni Aloi Part 1: Forest 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 Part 2: Trees 5 Trees: Upside-Down, Inside-Out, and Moving Giovanni Aloi 6 Animation, Animism … Dukun Dukun & DNA Lucy Davis 7 Tree Wound Portraits Shannon Lee Castleman 8 Contested Sites: Forest as Uncommon Ground Greg Lee Ruffing 9 Quercus velutina, Art of Fiction, No. 11111011 Lindsey French Part 3: Garden 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 Part 4: Greenhouse 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 Part 5: Store 18 Hyperplant Shelf-Life Giovanni Aloi 19 Life in the Aisles Linda Tegg 20 Roomba Rumba: Interview with Katherine Behar Fatma Çolakoğlu and Ulya Soley 21 Home Depot Throwing Out Plants Various Contributors Part 6: House 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 Part 7: Laboratory 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 Tova Flores Index Part 8: Of Other Spaces 30 (Brief) Encounters Giovanni Aloi 31 Places of Maybe: Plants “Making Do” Without the Belly of the Beast Andrew Yang 32 The Neophyte Lois Weinberger 33 Herbarium Perrine: Interview with Mark Dion Interviewer:Giovanni Aloi 34 Burning Flowers: Interview with Mat Collishaw Interviewer:Giovanni Aloi 35 A Program for Plants: In Conversation, Coda Giovanni Aloi, Brian M. John, Linda Tegg and Joshi Radin Bibliography IndexReviewsThe 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 movement. This 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, Choice Magazine, September 2019, Vol. 57 No. 1. Author InformationGiovanni 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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