Images of the Plant Humanities: Theory, Art and the Botanic Gaze (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781350502611)

Exploring the words and images used to represent plants, this interdisciplinary book examines how vegetal life has been theorised both in the contemporary plant humanities, a developing field of research which aims to rectify the traditional neglect of plants as a model for thinking, and in Western modernity more generally.

Focusing on the varied ways that the vegetal has been represented, misrepresented, or even hidden, during modernity, it studies how philosophical, scientific and environmental theories, as well as colonial histories, have determined these representations, as well as how these representations have themselves influenced theory. Bringing aesthetic depictions of plant life into conversation with philosophical, cultural, literary and scientific thinking, it looks to return our attention to vegetal life, and to challenge traditional assumptions regarding plant intelligence, agency and communication.

Author: Danielle Sands
ISBN-10: 1350502618
ISBN-13: 9781350502611
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 09/17/2026
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.11d