Lawn

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.A quintessential feature in Western gardens and landscaping, the lawn is now at the center of a climate change controversy. The large carbon footprint maintenance, its unquenchable thirst for fertilizers, weedkillers, and water, and the notorious unfriendliness towards all forms of wildlife have recently attracted criticism and even spurred an anti-lawn movement. L untangles the colonial-capitalist threads that keep our passion for mown grass alive despite mounting evidence that we''d be better off without it. The lawn is aesthetically and ideologically versatile. From museums and hospitals to corporate headquarters and university campuses, it has become the verdant lingua franca of institutions of all kinds. Its formal homogeneity and neatness imply reliability, constancy, and solicit our trust. But beneath the lawn lies a stratification of intricate ideological and ecological issues that over time have come to define our conception of nature.>

Info autore

Giovanni Aloi is an art historian and curator, specializing in the history and theory of photography, representation of nature, and everyday objects in art. He currently lectures on modern and contemporary art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA and Sotheby’s Institute of Art in New York, USA and London, UK. Since 2006, Aloi has been the Editor in Chief of Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Giovanni Aloi, Aloi Giovanni
• Con la collaborazione di: Ian Bogost (Editore), Christopher Schaberg (Editore)
• Editore: Bloomsbury Academic
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 20.02.2025
• EAN: 9798765108789
• ISBN: 9798765108789
• Pagine: 160
• Dimensioni: 120 mm x 164 mm x 20 mm
• Serie: Object Lessons
• Categorie: Guide e manuali > Natura; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, Climate Change, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Philosophy: aesthetics, Social impact of environmental issues, Social and cultural anthropology, Literary theory, Semiotics / semiology