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Endless forms : Charles Darwin, natural science and the visual arts
- Title
- Endless forms : Charles Darwin, natural science and the visual arts / edited by Diana Donald and Jane Munro.
- Publication
- Cambridge, UK : Fitzwilliam Museum ; New Haven [Conn.] : Yale Center for British Art ; New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, c2009.
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- Description
- xiii, 344 p. : ill. (some col.), maps; 30 cm.
- Subject
- 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 (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-332) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JQF 09-2175
- ISBN
- 9780300148268 (hc : alk. paper)
- 0300148267 (hc : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008022113
- OCLC
- 229342342
- Title
- Endless forms : Charles Darwin, natural science and the visual arts / edited by Diana Donald and Jane Munro.
- Imprint
- Cambridge, UK : Fitzwilliam Museum ; New Haven [Conn.] : Yale Center for British Art ; New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, c2009.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-332) and index.
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- Added Author
- Donald, Diana.Munro, Jane.
- Research Call Number
- JQF 09-2175