Green light : toward an art of evolution / George Gessert.

Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT Press, [2010], ©2010.

xxiii, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Divine plants and magical animals -- Aesthetic effects of domestication -- The rainforests of domestication -- The rise of ornamental plants -- Darwin's sublime -- Playing God -- Standards of excellence -- Doubles -- Kitsch plants -- Bastard flowers, genetic goofies, and Freud's bow wows -- Biotechnology in the garden -- Recent art involving DNA -- Naming life -- Anthropocentrism and genetic art -- The angel of extinction -- Seven breeding complexes -- The slowest art -- Breeding for wildness.