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Green light : toward an art of evolution
- Title
- Green light : toward an art of evolution / George Gessert.
- Author
- Gessert, George, 1944-
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2010.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | N72.B5 G47 2010 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xxiii, 233 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Leonardo
- Uniform Title
- Leonardo (Series) (Cambridge, Mass.)
- Alternative Title
- Toward an art of evolution
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780262014144 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0262014149 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2009037617
- 40017810681
- OCLC
- ocn437054130
- 437054130
- SCSB-5521424
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries