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Gene Culture: Molecular Metaphor in Visual Art
- Leonardo
- The MIT Press
- Volume 33, Number 5, October 2000
- pp. 371-375
- Article
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This paper addresses visual art’s relationship to genetics and its attendant metaphorical representation. By diagramming models of the ways in which DNA is visualized and comprehended as a system of signs, parallel conceptions between art history’s engagement with abstraction, recontextualization, and duplication is compared to genetic process and laboratory experimentation.