Darwin
Subtitle: art and the search for origins
By: edited by Pamela Kort, Max Hollein
Contributors: Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
Publisher: Wienand
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cologne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9783879099733; 9783879099726
Subjects: Exhibitions; Influence; Art and science; Biology in art; Evolution (Biology); Philosophy; Natural history illustration; Life; Origin; Beeldende kunsten; Darwinisme; Evolutie
Other titles: Art and the search for origins
Description: "The exhibition is the first to focus on the implications of Darwinism for the fine arts. All of the artists featured in the exhibition shared an interest in the natural sciences and either read texts by Darwin or by those who reacted to him. With approximately 150 paintings, drawings, and lithographs as well as rare documentary material, the exhibition showcases artists such as Martin Johnson Heade, František Kupka, Odilon Redon, George Frederic Watts, Arnold Böcklin, Gabriel von Max, Alfred Kubin, and Max Ernst, and thus spans the period from 1859 to the mid twentieth century."--Schirn Kunsthalle website (viewed July 26, 2009).
Notes: Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, held at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Feb. 5-May 3, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-284) and index.
Table of contents: title: Two painters in South America : Frederic Edwin Church and Martin Johnson Heade / Pamela Kort; title: Arnold Böcklin, Max Ernst, and the debate around origins and survivals in Germany and France / Pamela Kort; title: The tragic sense of Ernst Haeckel : his scientific and artistic struggles / Robert J. Richards; title: Nature and soul : Austrian responses to Ernst Haeckel's evolutionary monism / Marsha Morton; title: Making things real : Odilon Redon and Jean Carriès / Pamela Kort; title: The missing link in the modern world / Jane Goodall; title: Gabriel von Max and his "scientific collection" / Michael Tellenbach ... [et al.]; title: Picturing prehistoric man in France : Fernand Cormon, Léon Maxime Faivre, Xénophon Hellouin, and František Kupka / Pamela Kort; title: The evolutionary transcendentalism of George Frederic Watts / Alison Smith; title: "Natural histories" in Germany : Alfred Edmund Brehm and John Heartfield / Pamela Kort; title: Variation and selection : the theory of evolution in the English and German illustrated press of the nineteenth century / Julia Voss; title: The world of Charles Darwin / Bernd Herkner.