Images of the Plant Humanities : Theory, Art and the Botanic Gaze (Environmental Cultures)

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Images of the Plant Humanities : Theory, Art and the Botanic Gaze (Environmental Cultures)

Sands, Danielle (EDT)/ Whistler, Daniel (EDT)

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Bloomsbury Academic（2026/09発売）
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製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 320 p.
言語 ENG
商品コード 9781350502611
DDC分類 333.953

Full Description

Confronting the relationship between words and images in the representation of plant life in Western modernity, this interdisciplinary book examines the ways in which plants have been theorised both in contemporary plant humanities and modern thinking about plants more generally.

Focusing on the various ways that the vegetal has been represented—or hidden—during modernity, it studies how philosophical, scientific and environmental theories, as well as colonial histories, have determined these representations, as well as the ways in which these representations have themselves influenced theory.

Situating itself within the plant-humanities, a developing field of research which draws upon the environmental humanities to rectify the traditional neglect of plants as a model for thinking, it examines aesthetic representations of plant life, and philosophical and scientific thinking about the vegetal, so as to challenge traditional assumptions regarding plant intelligence, agency and communication.

Part One: Understanding Plant Monsters
1. "What a Strange Prodigy": The Welwitschia mirabilis
Katherine Arnold (University of Liverpool, UK)
2. No Monsters Here: Vegetable Teratology and Plant Horror
Stella Sandford (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
3. Abnormal Plants and Anomalous Arts: Troubling the Non/Human Norm
Aliya Say (Independent scholar)
4. The "Plant Horror" of Turpin's Urpflanze and Hooker's Welwitschia: Narratives of Monstrous Proliferation and Grotesque Hybridity
Caroline Harris (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)

Part Two: Narrating Plant Desires
5. Thinking Sex with Plants: The Speculative Sexualities of Enlightenment Botany
Natania Meeker (University of Southern California, USA)
6. Fern Tongues: A Pteridomaniac's Imagination of Vegetal Time and Desire
Solvejg Nitzke (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany)
7. Dragon Arum: A Phytopoetic Gaze on Vegetal Violence and Eroticism
Joela Jacobs (University of Arizona, USA)
8. The Quest for the Blue Flower: The Legacy of German Romanticism in Three Contemporary Novels
Isabel Kranz (University for Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria)

Part Three: Rediscovering Plant Agency
9. The Temporality of Titan Arum
John C. Ryan (University of Notre Dame, Australia)
10. Prickly-Pairs: On Humans, Plants, and Technicity
Ed Thornton (Independent Researcher)
11. Extending the Botanical: Agency, Abstraction and Contemporary Plant Drawing
Danielle Sands (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)

Part Four: Resituating Plants Ecologically
12. Undoing the Hollow Space of Representation: Margaret Mee's Plant Portraits in the Kew Collection
Yota Batsaki (Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard University USA)
13. Papa and Kuka: A Biocultural Exploration of Two Andean Crops
Nataly Allasi Canales (University of Copenhagen, Denmark/Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK) and Kim Walker (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK/Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew)
14. Lacebark and the Interior Décor of the Jamaican Slave Cottage
Steeve Buckridge (Grand Valley State University, USA)
15. Humboldt and Bonpland's Essay on the Geography of Plants: The Other Side of the Physical Tableau of the Andes
Quentin Hiernaux (Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)

Part Five: Redrawing Plant Boundaries
16. "Where Nature stopped half-way": Waterlilies and the Foliar Theory of the Flower
Ulrich Stegmann (University of Aberdeen, UK)
17. The Place of Algae in Experimental Natural Histories
Joan Steigerwald (University of York, UK)
18. A "Funeral Oration" for Lichenology?
Lydia Azadpour (University of Nottingham, UK)

Part Six: Representing Plants Otherwise
19. This is not a Brugmansia
Giovanni Aloi (Independent Researcher)
20. Ginkgo and Dark Botany
Prudence Gibson (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia) and Maya Martin-Westheimer (University of New South Wales)
21. Anna Atkins' Cyanotypes: Gestures for Hands Driven by Sunlight
Redell Olsen (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
22. The Ecology of Plant Iconography
Laurence Hill (Independent Artist)

Part Seven: Reimagining Plant Forms
23. Blue So Deep
Ben Woodard (Independent Researcher)
24. Containing Nature in the Leaves of a Book: Botany, Bibliography, and the Embodiment of Thought
Thomas Moynihan (University of Cambridge, UK)
25. Drawing the Urpflanze: Goethe, Arber, Grothendieck
Sophie Gerber (University of Bordeaux, France)

Afterword: The Library and Archives at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Julia Buckley (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK)