Index

Contents

Series Foreword

Acknowledgments

Publication History

Introduction

1 Divine Plants and Magical Animals

2 Aesthetic Effects of Domestication

3 The Rainforests of Domestication

4 The Rise of Ornamental Plants

5 Darwin’s Sublime

6 Playing God

7 Standards of Excellence

8 Doubles

9 Kitsch Plants

10 Bastard Flowers, Genetic Goofies, and Freud’s Bow Wows

11 Biotechnology in the Garden

12 Recent Art Involving DNA

13 Naming Life

14 Anthropocentrism and Genetic Art

15 The Angel of Extinction

16 Seven Breeding Complexes

17 The Slowest Art

18 Breeding for Wildness

Appendix 1

Appendix 2

Appendix 3

Appendix 4

Notes

Index