Dark Botany : the herbarium tales / Prudence Gibson [and three others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gibson, Prudence, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Critical theory.

Botany--Study and teaching.

Botany.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

London, England : Open Humanities Press, 2024.

Summary:

"Dark Botany activates the material and sensorial wonder of plants-their energy, their mysterious allure, their capacities and skills, their independent might. In this Wunderkammer of critical plant studies essays and plant+artworks, the herbarium emerges as a site of multiple materialities and reflexive forms of counter-narrative. Herbaria specimens come alive as assemblages, telling truths about their dark histories and darker contemporary currents, while reflecting on the complexity of texture, movement, memory, compound structure, chemical emissions and rapid evolution of plants and languages. What one discovers is that herbaria are not static: they are as vital, energetic and enigmatic as the plants in their collections-and as diverse.".

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