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Join art historian and plant specialist Giovanni Aloi as he presents his newest publication, Botanical Revolutions: How Plants Changed the Course of Art, a richly illustrated book that unearths the representation of plants and their vital impact on art. Through imagery and insights, he'll share the crucial moments throughout history that signaled the formation of new movements, styles, and media that could not have occurred without the involvement of and interaction with plant life.

As a strong advocate for the legitimacy of the botanical world's place in art history, Aloi will also present an alternative history of art that foregrounds the truly indispensable contributions of plants.

To purchase a copy of Botanical Revolutions, please visit this page.

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Schedule:	Tuesday, August 12, 2025
Times:	06:00pm-07:00pm EDT
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Speaker:	Giovanni Aloi Giovanni Aloi Giovanni Aloi Giovanni Aloi's research focuses on the Anthropocene and new conceptions of nature in art. He currently teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is the Editor in Chief of Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture (www.antennae.org.uk). Aloi is the author of Art & Animals (2011), Speculative Taxidermy: Natural History, Animal Surfaces, and Art in the Anthropocene (2018), Why Look at Plants? The Vegetal Emergence in Contemporary Art (2019), Lucian Freud - Herbarium (2019), and Posthumanism in Art and Science (2020). He has contributed to BBC radio programs, worked at Whitechapel Art Gallery and Tate Galleries in London, and currently is USA correspondent for Esse Magazine. Aloi has curated exhibitions in the US and Europe and is co-editor of the University of Minnesota Press series 'Art after Nature'.
Location:	Online-Live,
Session Number:	261LEC804O

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Tuesday, August 12, 2025
06:00pm-07:00pm EDT
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