Anker, Suzanne

The molecular gaze : art in the genetic age / Suzanne Anker, Dorothy Nelkin. - Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y. : Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, c2004. - xxiii, 216 p. : ill. 27 cm. - Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press series on genomics, bioethics, and public policy .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Divining DNA / Philip R. Reilly -- Image credits -- Deciphering DNA: the art and science of a supermolecule -- Reductionism: the body as a code script of information -- Mutation, manipulation, and monsters: the new grotesque in art -- Blurring boundaries: chimeras and transgenics -- Breeding better babies: a new eugenics? -- Commodification: genes for sale -- Science as culture: through the artist's lens -- Lists of artists and their works -- Appendix, group art exhibits that focus on genetics concepts.

9780879696979;0879696974


Genetic Phenomena
Genetic Structures
Medicine in the Arts

N72.S3 / A53 2004

WZ 330 / .A55 2004