Biocentrism and Modernism
By: Edited by Oliver A.I. Botar and Isabel Wünsche
Publisher: ASHGATE; Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9781409400509
Subjects: Modernism (Art); Nature (Aesthetics); Human ecology in art
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-259) and index.
Table of contents: title: Defining Biocentrism / Oliver A. I. Botar; title: Rereading Bioromanticism / Monika Wucher; title: The naming of Biomorphism / Jennifer Mundy; title: On the biology of the inorganic: Crystallography and discourses of latent life in the art and architectural historiography of the early twentieth century / Spyros Papapetros; title: Traces of organicism in gardening and urban planning theories in early twentieth-century Germany / David Haney and Elke Sohn; title: Organic visions and biological models in Russian avant-garde art / Isabel Wünsche; title: Biocentrism and anarchy: Herbert Read's Modernism / Allan Antliff; title: Organicism among the Cubists: The case of Raymond Duchamp-Villon / Mark Antliff; title: Klee's Neo-Romanticism: The wages of scientific curiosity / Sara Lynn Henry; title: Kandinsky and science: The introduction of biological images in the Paris period / Vivian Endicott Barnett; title: Pollock's dream of a Biocentric art: The challenge of his and Peter Blake's Ideal Museum / Elizabeth Langhorne.