Susan Merrill Squier

Epigenetic Landscapes

Drawings as Metaphor

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Produktbeschreibung

Susan Merrill Squier follows the cultural trail of C. H. Waddington's "epigenetic landscape" metaphor from its first visualization by the artist John Piper to its use beyond science, examining how it has been used to illustrate complex systems that link scientific and cultural practices: graphic medicine, landscape architecture, and bioArt.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780822368601
• ISBN-10: 0822368609
• Artikelnr.: 47830399

Autorenporträt

Susan Merrill Squier

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. Figuring Development beyond the Gene  1
1. The Epigenetic Landscape  21
2. A New Landscape of Thought: Behind Appearance  51
3. Embryo  69
4. The Graphic Embryo  87
5. The River in the Landscape  129
6. Designing Rivers  161
7. "A Complex System of Interactions": Art Laboratory Berlin as an
Epigenetic Landscape  183
Conclusion. Anastomosis  205
Notes  215
References  241
Index  259