Overview: Explores artistic representations of vegetal life that imperil human life.Explores the way that vegetal threats express human anxieties in art, fiction, and film.Features analysis of The Day of the Tr.This collection explores artistic representations of vegetal life that imperil human life, voicing anxieties about our relationship to other life forms with which we share the earth. From medieval manuscript illustrations to modern works of science fiction and horror, plants that manifest monstrous agency defy human control, challenge anthropocentric perception, and exact a violent veng
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