Drawing Processes of Life (Paperback)

Gemma Anderson-Tempini

ISBN 10: 1789387663 / ISBN 13: 9781789387667

Published by Intellect, Bristol, 2023

About this Item

Paperback. How the challenge of depicting biological systems can generate productive questions for artists and scientists. An artist sketching 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 knowledgea pathway for research, not an end result. Incorporating drawing studies and contributions from scholars in the humanities and life sciences, Drawing Processes of Life addresses epigenetics, epistemology, and metamorphosis in insects, proteins, and other ever-shifting biological systems. A foreword by Scott F. Gilbert, a renowned evolutionary biologist and historian of science, affirms the promise of interdisciplinary collaboration between artists and scientists. The edited collection Drawing Processes of Life is the product of artists, biologists and philosophers working together to formulate new ways of representing a new approach to life. It shows how better to represent biological process through drawing and to demonstrate the scientific value of drawing as a method. 78 b/w and 32 colour illustrations. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Seller Inventory # 9781789387667

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Drawing Processes of Life (Paperback)
• Publisher: Intellect, Bristol
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1789387663
• ISBN 13: 9781789387667
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

About this title

Synopsis

How the challenge of depicting biological systems can generate productive questions for artists and scientists.
 
An artist sketching 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 scholars in the humanities and life sciences, Drawing Processes of Life addresses epigenetics, epistemology, and metamorphosis in insects, proteins, and other ever-shifting biological systems. A foreword by Scott F. Gilbert, a renowned evolutionary biologist and historian of science, affirms the promise of interdisciplinary collaboration between artists and scientists.

About the Authors

Gemma Anderson-Tempini is an artist and research fellow at Egenis, the Centre for the Study of Life Sciences, University of Exeter.

John Dupré is professor of philosophy of science at the University of Exeter and director of Egenis, the Centre for the Study of Life Sciences.