Green Light: Toward an Art of Evolution (Record no. 29488)
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| fixed length control field | 01621nam a22001697a 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780262014144 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 701.08 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Gessert, George |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Green Light: Toward an Art of Evolution |
| Statement of responsibility | George Gessert |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Cambridge |
| Name of publisher | MIT Press |
| Year of publication | 2010 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xxiii,233 Pages |
| Other physical details | 24x18 cm |
| -- | HB |
| 490 ## - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Leonardo Books |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Includes Notes Index and Bibliography. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | Humans have bred plants and animals with an eye to aesthetics for centuries: flowers are selected for colorful blossoms or luxuriant foliage; racehorses are prized for the elegance of their frames. Hybridized plants were first exhibited as fine art in 1936, when the Museum of Modern Art in New York showed Edward Steichen's hybrid delphiniums. Since then, bio art has become a genre; artists work with a variety of living things, including plants, animals, bacteria, slime molds, and fungi. Many commentators have addressed the social and political concerns raised by making art out of living material. In Green Light, however, George Gessert examines the role that aesthetic perception has played in bio art and other interventions in evolution. Gessert looks at a variety of life forms that humans have helped shape, focusing on plants--the most widely domesticated form of life and the one that has been crucial to his own work as an artist. We learn about pleasure gardens of the Aztecs, cultivated for intoxicating fragrance; the aesthetic standards promoted by national plant societies; a daffodil that looks like a rose; and praise for weeds and wildflowers. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Art and biology |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Collection code | Permanent Location | Current Location | Shelving location | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Cost, normal purchase price | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| Non-fiction | Garrison Public Library Multan | Garrison Public Library Multan | General Stacks | 2017-04-14 | CRV/GPLM/11/2016 | 760.00 | 701.08 G389SG 2010 | 35473 | Books |