The art of evolution
Subtitle: Darwin, Darwinisms, and visual culture
By: edited by Barbara Larson and Fae Brauer.
Contributors: Larson, Barbara; Brauer, Fae.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Interfaces: studies in visual culture
Publisher: University Press of New England
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Hanover, N.H
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781584657750
Subjects: Science and the arts; Arts and society; Natural history -- Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Darwin in caricature: a study in the popularization and dissemination of evolutionary theory / Janet Browne; title: Ugly disagreements: Darwin and Ruskin discuss sex and beauty / Phillip Prodger; title: From monera to man: Ernst Haeckel, Darwinismus, and nineteenth-century German art / Marsha Morton; title: Protoplasmania: Huxley, Haeckel, and the vibratory organism in late nineteenth-century science and art / Robert Michael Brain; title: Framing Darwin: a portrait of eugenics / Fae Brauer; title: "One of a long row only": sexual selection and the male gaze in Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles / James Krasne; title: Darwin's sexual selection and the jealous male in art in fin-de-siècle art / Barbara Larson; title: Wild beasts and tame primates: "Le Doaunier" Rousseau's dream of Darwin's evolution / Fae Brauer; title: Imag(in)ing post-revolutionary evolution: the Taylorized proletarian, "conditioning" and Soviet Darwinism in the 1920s / Pat Simpson; title: Emotional fusion with the animal kingdom: notes toward a natural history of surrealism / Gavin Parkinson; title: Darwin on the threshold of the visible: contemporary art and evolution / Sara Barnes and Andrew Patrizio.