About the Exhibition
As an on-going project, The Alternate Encyclopedia investigates the process by which we humans understand ourselves both within and separate from nature. How cultures have explored, recorded, documented, and pictured the natural world. The Alternate Encyclopedia creates a parallel universe of pictorial knowledge based on historical sources and contemporary issues in the study of natural history by imagining lost manuscripts, pondering evolutionary paths that could well emerge and picturing nature in ways that illuminate our human impulse to capture, collect, name, tame, dominate and re-create nature.

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Other links:
http://www.smcm.edu/users/srjohnson/
http://www.smcm.edu/art/srjohnson.html

Sponsored by:
The Emory Women's Center
Oxford College of Emory University
Friends of the Emory University Libraries

With the generous support of TIAA-CREF

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