UID:
edocfu_9961251268502883
Format:
1 online resource (336 pages) :
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illustrations (black and white, and colour).
Edition:
New edition
ISBN:
1-78938-710-8
Content:
How the challenge of depicting biological systems can generate productive questions for artists and scientists. An artist drawing cell division faces a problem: what is the best way to visually represent a dynamic process? This anthology, edited by an artist and a philosopher of science, explores drawing as a way of inquiring into living processes at the molecular, cellular, and organismal scale. In doing so, drawing emerges as a tool for relaying and uncovering knowledge - a pathway for research, not an end result. Incorporating drawing studies and contributions from schol- ars in the humanities and life sciences, Drawing Processes of Life addresses epistemological issues arising in cell division, insect metamorphosis, protein folding, and other ever-shifting biological systems. Fulfilling the promise of an interdisciplinary collaboration between artists and scientists, this book demonstrates the interweav- ing of processes, scientific, artistic, and non-human that the abstractive techniques of modern science so readily obscure.
Note:
List of Figures --
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Acknowledgements --
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Foreword: Symbiotic Perspectives on the Processes of Biology and Art /
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Introduction /
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1. Conrad H. Waddington and the Image of Process Biology /
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2. Drawing as a Pragmatist Visual Epistemology /
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3. Drawing to Extend Waddington’s Epigenetic Landscape /
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4. Drawing the Origami Embryo as a Stratified Space–Time Worm /
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5. Drawing the Dynamic Nature of Cell Division /
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6. Drawing as Intuitive Mode for Representing Protein Dynamics /
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7. Drawing Out the Superorganism: Artistic Intervention and the Amplification of Processes of Life /
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8. Mimicry, Adaptation, Expression /
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9. Metamorphosis in Images: Insect Transformation from the End of the Seventeenth to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century /
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10. Flow, Attend, Flex: Introducing a Process-Oriented Approach to Live Cell Biological Research /
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Process Epistemologies for the Careful Interplay of Art and Biology: An Afterword /
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Notes on Contributors --
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Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Drawing processes of life. Bristol : Intellect Books, 2023 ISBN 9781789387094
Language:
English
