Category: Adolf Portmann
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Adolf Portmann on the New Biology, by Gianna Maria Gatti (translated by Alan N. Shapiro)
This action, offering light to the plant, enables the latter to externalize its ‘interiority’. A fascinating interpretation that, deriving from an unusual vision of the artwork, instills in it a deeper and certainly original value. Suggesting this original meaning is the theory developed around the time of the 1960s by the Swiss biologist Adolf Portmann.