Endless forms : Charles Darwin, natural science and the visual arts / edited by Diana Donald and Jane Munro.

Other author Donald, Diana.
Other author Munro, Jane.
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge, UK : Fitzwilliam Museum ; New Haven [Conn.] : Yale Center for British Art ; New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, 2009.
Descriptionxiii, 344 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 30 cm.
Subjects

SeriesYale Center for British Art series
Yale Center for British Art series. UNAUTHORIZED
Contents Darwin at home : observation and taste at Down House / Julius Bryant -- The history of the earth : Darwin, geology and landscape art / Rebecca Bedell -- The 'struggle for existence' in nature and human society / Diana Donald -- Art and the 'entangled bank' : colour and beauty out of the 'war of nature' / Diana Donald and Jan Eric Olsén -- 'What is meant by this system?' : Charles Darwin and the visual re-ordering of nature / Nicola Gauld -- Mankind after Darwin and nineteenth-century art / David Bindman -- Evolving images ; photography, race and popular Darwinism / Elizabeth Edwards -- 'A mind and conscience akin to our own' : Darwin's theory of expression and the depiction of animals in nineteenth-century Britain / Diana Donald -- Monkeys, apes and evolutionary theory : from human descent to King Kong / Julia Voss -- Evolutionary aesthetics and Victorian visual culture / Jonathan Smith -- 'More like a work of art than of nature' : darwin, beauty and sexual selection / Jane Munro -- Monet and the monkeys : the Impressionist encounter with Darwinism / Richard Kendall.
General note"This publication accompanies the exhibition Endless forms : Charles Darwin, Natural Science and the Visual Arts, organised by the Fitzwilliam Museum in association with the Yale Center for British Art, on view at the Yale Center for British Art from 12 February to 3 May 2009 and at the Fitzwilliam Museum from 16 June to 4 October 2009"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 329-332) and index.
LCCN 2008022113
ISBN9780300148268 (alk. paper)
ISBN0300148267 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks N72.S3 E53 2009 ✔ Available Place Hold