{"product_id":"why-look-at-plants-the-botanical-emergence-in-contemporary-art-9789004409583","title":"Why Look at Plants?: The Botanical Emergence in Contemporary Art","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 2019 Outstanding Academic Titles award in Choice, a publishing unit of the Association of College \u0026amp; 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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 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, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents  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 \u0026amp; 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  Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210781811031,"sku":"9789004409583","price":56.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/why-look-at-plants-the-botanical-emergence-in-contemporary-art-9789004409583","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}