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Delphinium, Delphinium and More Delphinium––Edward Steichen, Karl Foerster and Their Obsession with Blue. About the Conceptual Art of Ornamental Plant Breeding. (last edited: 2014)

Hannah Stippl
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Breeding plants has a very long history that is little known. Even less known is its history as the one of an artistic discipline. Edward Steichen is the first artist who creates new organisms and exhibits these as art in the Museum of Modern Art in New York: Bio-art, long before Eduardo Kac in the 1990s coined the term. As a medium of horticulture plants and animals have been modified by aesthetic ideas. Much of this work is not seen as a work of art. Such as Edward Steichen's larkspur 'Connecticut Yankee', which can be purchased by about two dollars at the garden center today. But Edward Steichen is neither first nor the only artist who dealt with the hybridization and selection of ornamental plants: Claude Monet, Cedric Morris, William Caparne or Fernand Denis grow dahlias, poppies or irises, to name just a few examples. Many of these works are now lost. Many breeders, despite the utmost aesthetic awareness, do not position themselves within the reference system of art––an example is Karl Foerster. A comparison of the careers and practices of Steichen and Foerster is also profoundly questioning nowadays assignments to various disciplines. As a manifesto, this article thus follows the history of a heretofore marginalized art form.
typeresearch exposition
date25/06/2014
last modified25/06/2014
statusin progress
share statuspublic
affiliationUniversity of Applied Arts Vienna, Landscape Art
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urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/88036/88037


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nameEdward Steichen: Delphinium 'Connecticut Yankee'
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nameEdward Steichen: Delphinium 'Connecticut Yankee'
copyrightHannah Stippl 2013
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nameEdward Steichen: Delphinium 'Connecticut Yankee'
copyrightHannah Stippl 2013
licenseAll rights reserved
usagesslideshow
nameEdward Steichen: Delphinium 'Connecticut Yankee'
copyrightHannah Stippl 2013
licenseAll rights reserved
usagesslideshow
nameEdward Steichen: Delphinium 'Connecticut Yankee'
copyrightHannah Stippl 2013
licenseAll rights reserved
usagesslideshow
nameEdward Steichen: Delphinium 'Connecticut Yankees'
copyrightHannah Stippl 2013
licenseAll rights reserved
usagesslideshow
nameEdward Steichen: Delphinium 'Connecticut Yankee'
copyrightHannah Stippl 2013
licenseAll rights reserved
usagesslideshow
nameEdward Steichen: Delphinium 'Connecticut Yankee'
copyrightHannah Stippl 2013
licenseAll rights reserved
usagesslideshow

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