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    Tiny taxonomy / Rosetta S. Elkin.

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      Tiny taxonomy / Rosetta S. Elkin.
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    • Author/Creator:Elkin, Rosetta Sarah, author, artist.
    • Other Contributors/Collections:Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
    • Conference/Event:International Garden Festival (1984 : Liverpool, England)
      Chelsea Fringe Festival.
    • Published/Created:New York : Actar Publishers, [2017]
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Elkin, Rosetta Sarah--Exhibitions.
      Landscape architecture--Exhibitions.
      Landscape design--Exhibitions.
      Installations (Art)--Exhibitions.
      Forest plants--Exhibitions.
      Plants--Classification.
    • Description:139 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
    • Summary:"Tiny Taxonomy offers a visually engaging collection of images and texts drawn from a series of contemporary garden installations, which highlight the role of individual plants in landscape architecture. Tiny Taxonomy showcases species that are in cultivation or in profusion, but rarely purposefully planted. A grouping of plants is categorized by common traits derived from an evolution towards feature miniaturization, generating another form of classification. Due to the diminutive size of their features, these plants are often over-looked and therefore tend to be under specified. It seems that as the world around us gains complexity and intricacy, our biological world is tending towards monotony. Tiny Taxonomy considers smallness a design opportunity, offering innumerable microcosmic considerations of the leaf form, flower structure, and physical habitat of individual plants."-- Publisher's website
    • Notes:"International Garden Festival at Les Jardins de Métis, Grand Métis, Québec, Canada ... The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Jordan Garden, Boston, MA ... Chelsea Fringe Festival at Belgrave Square, London, UK"--Colophon.
    • ISBN:9781940291833 hardcover
      1940291836 hardcover
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: Les Jardins de Metis
      Perspective on Taxonomy
      Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
      Individualistic Concept of the Plant Association
      Belgrave Square.
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