Synthetic worlds : nature, art and the chemical industry /
Leslie, Esther, 1964-
Synthetic worlds : nature, art and the chemical industry / Esther Leslie. - [London] : Reaktion Books, 2007.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Glints, facets and essence. -- Substance and philosophy, coal and poetry. -- Eyelike blots and synthetic color. -- Shimmer and shine, waste and effort in the exchange economy. -- Twinkle and extra-terrestriality: a Utopian interlude. -- Class struggle in color. -- Nazi rainbows. -- Abstraction and extraction in the Third Reich. -- After Germany: pollutants, aura and colors that glow. -- nature's beautiful corpse.
9781861892485
Art and science.
Chemical industry--Social aspects.
Nature (Aesthetics)
701.05
Synthetic worlds : nature, art and the chemical industry / Esther Leslie. - [London] : Reaktion Books, 2007.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Glints, facets and essence. -- Substance and philosophy, coal and poetry. -- Eyelike blots and synthetic color. -- Shimmer and shine, waste and effort in the exchange economy. -- Twinkle and extra-terrestriality: a Utopian interlude. -- Class struggle in color. -- Nazi rainbows. -- Abstraction and extraction in the Third Reich. -- After Germany: pollutants, aura and colors that glow. -- nature's beautiful corpse.
9781861892485
Art and science.
Chemical industry--Social aspects.
Nature (Aesthetics)
701.05