Landscape, Art, and Ecology

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 24.01.08

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Mathinna: A Colonial Parable
  3. Mushrooms, Health and Climate Change
  4. Beatrix Potter
  5. Cy Twombly / John Cage
  6. Lesson Plans With Strategies and Objectives
  7. Conclusion
  8. Reading List for Teachers
  9. Reading List for Students
  10. Materials for Classroom Use
  11. Notes
  12. Annotated Bibliography
  13. Appendix on Implementing District Standards

Art of the Mushroom

Kasalina M. Nabakooza

Published September 2024

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Notes

  1. Rogers, Hannah Star. Art, Science, and the Politics of Knowledge (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2022), 230.
  2. Old Master and British Drawings (Christie’s: New York, 2019), 24-25.
  3. Wasson, R. Gordon. The Wondrous Mushroom: Mycolatry in Mesoamerica.(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1980), 229.
  4. Cook, Langdon. The Mushroom Hunters: On the Trail of an Underground America (New York: Ballantine Books, 2013), 6.
  5. Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt. The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015), 8.
  6. Venturella, Giuseppe, Valeria Ferraro, Fortunato Cirlincione, and Maria Letizia Gargano. 2021. "Medicinal Mushrooms: Bioactive Compounds, Use, and Clinical Trials" International Journal of Molecular Sciences22, no. 2: 634. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms22020634, 1-30.
  7. Flannery, Maura C. In the Herbarium: The Hidden World of Collecting and Preserving Plants (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023), 246.
  8. Sheldrake, Merlin. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2021) 149.
  9. Sheldrake, Entangled, 71
  10. Ibid, 101.
  11. Stamets, Paul. Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms can Help Save the World (Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 2005) 129.
  12. Stamets, Mycelium Running, 129.
  13. Ibid, 130.
  14. Sheldrake, Entangled, 192.
  15. Ibid, 47.
  16. Ibid, 6.
  17. Ibid, 3.
  18. Foster, Kristina. 2020. "Mushrooms at Somerset House Opens the Spores of Perception." FT.Com(Feb 28). Accessed June 24, 2024. https://www.proquest.com/trade-journals/mushrooms-at-somerset-house-opens-spores/docview/2367437154/se-2.
  19. Walls, Alissa A. "Cy Twombly and the Art of Hunting Mushrooms." American Art28, no. 2 (2014): 51.
  20. Schofield, Leo. 2008. "Mathinna Lessons Resonate." The Mercury, Nov 08. Accessed July 11, 2024. https://www.proquest.com/newspapers/mathinna-lessons-resonate/docview/352935584/se-2
  21. Schofield, Leo. 2008. "Mathinna Lessons Resonate."
  22. Ibid.
  23. Flannery, Maura C. In the Herbarium: The Hidden World of Collecting and Preserving Plants (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023), 76.
  24. Schofield, Leo. 2008. "Mathinna Lessons Resonate.”
  25. Ghosh, Iman. December 8, 2021. “All The BioMass on Earth,” Nautilus. Accessed June 25, 2024. https://nautil.us/all-the-biomass-on-earth-238368/
  26. Sheldrake, Entangled, 44.
  27. Breedlove, Byron. "Beatrix Potter, Author, Naturalist, Mycologist." Emerging Infectious Diseases25, no. 9 (2019): 1786.
  28. Ghosh, “All the BioMass.”
  29. Sheldrake, Entangled, 9.
  30. Ibid, 165.
  31. Bilclough, Annemarie, Richard Fortey, Sara Glenn, Emma Laws, Liz Hunter MacFarlane, James Rebanks, Lucy Shaw, and Beatrix Potter. Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature (London: V&A Publishing, 2021), 21.
  32. Bilclough, Drawn to Nature, 23.
  33. Ibid, 38.
  34. Ibid, 7.
  35. Ibid, 74.
  36. Ibid, 32-33.
  37. Ibid, 83.
  38. Ibid, 79.
  39. Ibid, 89.
  40. Ibid, 59.
  41. Ibid, 69.
  42. Ibid, 7.
  43. Ibid, 90.
  44. Britannica, T. Editors of Encyclopedia. "Beatrix Potter." Encyclopedia Britannica, July 24, 2024. Accessed July 30, 2024. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Beatrix-Potter. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Beatrix-Potter.
  45. Bilclough, Drawn to Nature, 88
  46. Sheldrake, Entangled, 69.
  47. Ibid, 7.
  48. Flannery, In the Herbarium, 74.
  49. Walls, "Cy Twombly," 56.
  50. Wainwright, L. S. "Cy Twombly." Encyclopedia Britannica, July 1, 2024. Accessed July 5, 2024. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Cy-Twombly.
  51. Wainwright, L. S. "Cy Twombly." 
  52. Ibid. 
  53. Walls, "Cy Twombly ," 60.
  54. Sheldrake, Entangled, 54.
  55. Ibid, 54.
  56. Flannery, In the Herbarium, 81.
  57. Britannica, T. Editors of Encyclopedia. "John Cage." Encyclopedia Britannica, August 8, 2024. Accessed August 9, 2024. https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Cage.
  58. Sean O’Hagan. 2020.A Mushroom-Related Brush with Mortality: How John Cage Fell for Fungi. London (UK): Guardian News & Media Limited. Accessed June 21, 2024. https://www.proquest.com/blogs-podcasts-websites/mushroom-related-brush-with-mortality-how-john/docview/2435339737/se-2.
  59. Sean O’Hagan, Brush with Mortality, 1-3.
  60. Ibid, 2.
  61. Ibid, 2-3.
  62. Walls, “Cy Twombly,” 51.
  63. Ibid, 51.
  64. Ibid, 51.
  65. Sheldrake, Entangled, 10.
  66. Ibid, 15.
  67. Ibid, 193.

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