Reading List Modern Nature Artists’ Reading Lists Back Artists and curators taking part in Drawing Room's exhibition programme are invited to compile ‘reading lists’ that inform and expand the themes explored in their work. This list has been compiled for Modern Nature, an exhibition that explores our interaction and fascination with plants in relation to aspects of social change, personal well-being and scientific research. Titles marked with an asterisk * are held in Outset Study. Title Author Selected by Cosmos, Sketch of a Physical description of the universe Alexander von Humboldt Alberto Baraya Views of Nature Alexander von Humboldt Alberto Baraya The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science * Andrea Wulf Alberto Baraya Ocean Flowers: Impressions from nature Edited by Carol Armstrong & Catherine de Zegher Simryn Gill The Language of Plants * Monica Gagliano Christine Ödlund Thus Spoke the Plant Monica Gagliano Christine Ödlund Brilliant Green Stefano Mancuso Christine Ödlund The Revolutionary Genius of Plants - A New Understanding of Plant Intelligence and Behaviour Stefano Mancuso Christine Ödlund Aspects of Form - A Symposium on Form in Nature and Art * Lancelot Law Whyte Christine Ödlund Music and the Making of Modern Science Peter Pesic Christine Ödlund Iter Lapponicum - Lapland Journey- Lachesis Lapponica Carl von Linné Christine Ödlund William Morris on Art and Socialism * Edited by Norman Kelvin David Thorpe Selections from the works of Gerrard Winstanley * Edited by Leonard Hamilton David Thorpe The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing Viktor Timofeev Ecology without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics * Timothy Morton Viktor Timofeev Related Content Exhibition Modern Nature 2 May 2019 – 7 July 2019 See more related content