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The Plant Contract: Art's Return to Vegetal Life

AUTHOR Gibson, Prudence
PUBLISHER Brill (02/08/2018)
PRODUCT TYPE Paperback (Paperback)

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The Plant Contract argues that visual and performance art can help change our perception of the vegetal world, and can return us to nature and thought. Via an investigation into the wasteland, robotany, feminist plants, and nature rights, this phytology-love story investigates how contemporary art is mediating the effects of plant-blindness, caused by human disassociation from the natural world. It is also a gesture of respect for the genius of vegetal life, where new science proves plants can learn, communicate, remember, make decisions, and associate. Art is a litmus test for how climate change affects human perception. This book responds to that test by expressing plant-philosophy to a wider public, through an interrogation of plant-art.
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ISBN-13: 9789004353039
ISBN-10: 9004353038
Binding: Paperback or Softback (Trade Paperback (Us))
Content Language: English
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Page Count: 192
Carton Quantity: 0
Product Dimensions: 6.10 x 0.40 x 9.10 inches
Weight: 0.60 pound(s)
Feature Codes: Bibliography
Country of Origin: US
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Science | Life Sciences - Botany
Science | Aesthetics
Science | History - General
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The Plant Contract argues that visual and performance art can help change our perception of the vegetal world, and can return us to nature and thought. Via an investigation into the wasteland, robotany, feminist plants, and nature rights, this phytology-love story investigates how contemporary art is mediating the effects of plant-blindness, caused by human disassociation from the natural world. It is also a gesture of respect for the genius of vegetal life, where new science proves plants can learn, communicate, remember, make decisions, and associate. Art is a litmus test for how climate change affects human perception. This book responds to that test by expressing plant-philosophy to a wider public, through an interrogation of plant-art.
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