Open Book Publishers · @OpenBookPublish
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📢#OutNow in #OA: '#Decolonial #Ecologies: The Reinvention of #NaturalHistory in #LatinAmerican #Art', by Joanna Page.
In this book, Joanna Page illuminates the ways in which #contemporary #artists in #LatinAmerica are reinventing #historical methods of collecting, organizing, and displaying nature in order to develop new #aesthetic and #political perspectives on the past and the present.
Page brings together an entirely new corpus of #artistic projects from #Argentina, #Brazil, #Chile, #Colombia, #Ecuador, #Mexico, and #Peru that engage critically and creatively with forms as diverse as the #medieval #bestiary, #baroque #cabinetsofcuriosities, atlases created by #European travellers to the #NewWorld, the #floras and #herbaria composed by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century #naturalists, and the #dioramas designed for #naturalhistory #museums.
Access this OA title for free or get a hard copy at https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0339
#outnow #oa #decolonial #ecologies #naturalhistory #LatinAmerican #art #contemporary #artists #latinamerica #historical #aesthetic #political #artistic #argentina #brazil #Chile #Colombia #ecuador #mexico #peru #medieval #bestiary #baroque #cabinetsofcuriosities #european #NewWorld #floras #herbaria #naturalists #Dioramas #museums
Summer (she/they) · @mellamosummer
142 followers · 16 posts · Server ecoevo.socialHey #botany & #biology #researchers! I’m looking into #OCR software right now because I’m interested in extracting flower trait information from #floras & botanical #monographs.
Does anyone have an idea if such a tool exists? Pls let me know!!
#botany #biology #researchers #ocr #floras #monographs
Bernd Lenzner · @lenzner
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Posting my latest science after migrating here.
We wrote a piece on #alien #floras and the lasting imprints European colonialism left on them.
It was an exciting project combining #macroecology, #biological #invasions and #history.
You can read the paper here: go.nature.com/3s7iHFi
and a news coverage here:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03306-2
#alien #floras #macroecology #biological #Invasions #history