[PDF] Botanizing eBook

Author : Nanna Debois Buhl
Publisher :
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 30,1 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Refuse as art material
ISBN : 9788799359523

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Botanizing on the Asphalt is a series of cyanotype ‘herbariums’ depicting discarded objects collected on walks in Long Island City, Copenhagen, and Riga. Each herbarium captures a moment of the area by studying the life and circulation of its objects discarded in the streets. The project takes as its outset Walter Benjamin’s description of the urban wanderer as one “who goes botanizing on the asphalt,” and the work of the 19th-century British botanist and photographer Anna Atkins. Using the technique of cyanotype (in which an object is placed directly on light-sensitive paper which is exposed to the sun to produce an image) Anna Atkins made a large cyanotype herbarium of algae in the 1840s. Weaving together Benjamin’s notion, Atkins’ method, and traces from urban space, Botanizing on the Asphalt captures a moment in time before the discarded objects are again scattered, venturing in new directions.--viewed on the artist's website December 11, 2019.

Author : Elizabeth B. Keeney
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 44,95 MB
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0807862398

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Keeney examines the role of botany in the lives of nineteenth-century 'botanizers,' amateur scientists who collected, identified, and preserved plant specimens as a pastime. Using popular magazines, fiction, and autobiographies of the day, she explores the popular culture of this avocation, which attracted both men and women by the thousands.

Author : Lauren E. Eastwood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 49,22 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 1135472769

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This book provides a specific case study--based upon direct research with UN processes--which enables the reader to situate larger theoretical arguments regarding civil society, globalization, and sustainable development within the context of the actual activities of practitioners working within the UN forest policy-making arena.

Author : Elizabeth A. Dolan
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 13,73 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780754654919

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As she explores tropes of illness, healing, and social justice in the writings of Mary Wollstonecraft, Charlotte Smith, and Mary Shelley, Dolan engages with a wide range of primary sources in science and medicine. She argues that the Romantic-era interest in the physiology of vision influenced the culture's understanding of suffering, and that these three authors experimented with materialist modes of seeing in order to expand the language of suffering and to claim literary authority.