{"product_id":"why-look-at-plants-the-botanical-emergence-in-contemporary-art-paperback","title":"Why Look at Plants?: The Botanical Emergence in Contemporary Art - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGiovanni Aloi\u003c\/b\u003e (Volume Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2019 Outstanding Academic Titles award in Choice, a publishing unit of the Association of College \u0026amp; Research Libraries (ACRL)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWhy Look at Plants?\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eWhy Look at Plants?\u003c\/i\u003e challenges readers' pre-established notions through a diverse gathering of insights, stories, experiences, perspectives, and arguments encompassing multiple disciplines, media, and methodologies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGiovanni Aloi\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eAntennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture\u003c\/i\u003e (www.antennae.org.uk). He is the author of \u003ci\u003eArt \u0026amp; Animals\u003c\/i\u003e (2011) and \u003ci\u003eSpeculative Taxidermy: Natural History, Animal Surfaces, and Art in the Anthropocene\u003c\/i\u003e (2018). With Caroline Picard, Aloi is the co-editor of the University of Minnesota Press series \u003ci\u003eArt after Nature\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 282\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 10.2 x 7.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 08, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47464605188349,"sku":"9789004409583","price":127.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/nOgk3aqEst9789004409583.webp?v=1777261481","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/why-look-at-plants-the-botanical-emergence-in-contemporary-art-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}