{"product_id":"lawn-paperback","title":"Lawn - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGiovanni Aloi\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eIan Bogost\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eChristopher Schaberg\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA quintessential feature in Western gardens and landscaping, the lawn is now at the center of a climate change controversy. The large carbon footprint maintenance, its unquenchable thirst for fertilizers, weedkillers, and water, and the notorious unfriendliness towards all forms of wildlife have recently attracted criticism and even spurred an anti-lawn movement. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eLawn \u003c\/i\u003euntangles the colonial-capitalist threads that keep our passion for mown grass alive despite mounting evidence that we'd be better off without it. The lawn is aesthetically and ideologically versatile. From museums and hospitals to corporate headquarters and university campuses, it has become the verdant lingua franca of institutions of all kinds. Its formal homogeneity and neatness imply reliability, constancy, and solicit our trust. But beneath the lawn lies a stratification of intricate ideological and ecological issues that over time have come to define our conception of nature.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGiovanni Aloi \u003c\/b\u003eis an author, educator, and curator specializing in the representation of nature and the environment in art. He currently teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is the Editor in Chief of \u003ci\u003eAntennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture \u003c\/i\u003e(www.antennae.org.uk). Aloi is the author of \u003ci\u003eArt \u0026amp; Animals\u003c\/i\u003e (2011), \u003ci\u003eSpeculative Taxidermy: Natural History, Animal Surfaces, and Art in the Anthropocene\u003c\/i\u003e (2018), \u003ci\u003eWhy Look at Plants? The Vegetal Emergence in Contemporary Art \u003c\/i\u003e(2019), Lucian Freud - Herbarium (2019), and \u003ci\u003ePosthumanism in Art and Science\u003c\/i\u003e (2020). He has contributed to BBC radio programs, worked at Whitechapel Art Gallery and Tate Galleries in London, and currently is USA correspondent for \u003ci\u003eEsse \u003c\/i\u003eMagazine. Aloi has curated exhibitions in the US and Europe and is co-editor of the University of Minnesota Press series Art after Nature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 6.5 x 4.75 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 20, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47336333738233,"sku":"9798765108789","price":16.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/5tybIjTd4K9798765108789.webp?v=1769667440","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/lawn-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}