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Reframing Darwin : evolution and art in Australia / edited by Jeanette Hoorn.
- Title
- Reframing Darwin : evolution and art in Australia / edited by Jeanette Hoorn.
- Publication
- Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Pub., 2009.
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- Description
- 255 p.; ill (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm.
- Summary
- In celebration of the the bicentenary year of Charles Darwin's birth and complementing the Darwin's Cornucopia, Evolution, Science and Art exhibit in Australia, this record highlights the impact of Darwinian thought on Australian art, science, and culture. Comprehensive and unique, this collection of insightful essays reflects upon topics ranging from the voyage of the HMS Beagle to bioethics and cloning. This volume shows how pervasive the ideas of Charles Darwin are in the Australian arts and sciences and depicts the great influence his thinking has had in the international community and in cultures the world over.
- Subject
- Note
- Accompanies an exhibition, "Darwin's cornucopia : Charles Darwin in Australia", at The Ian Potter Museum of Art, the University of Melbourne, August 14 -November 1 2009.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Slavery, a 'scandal to Christian nations' : Charles Darwin, Augustus Earle and the compass of morality / Sarah Thomas -- Rio to Valparaiso : Conrad Martens and the Beagle / Elizabeth Ellis -- Syms Covington : a character from the margins / Roger McDonald -- From molluscs to monkeys : Darwin and early Australian biology / Danielle Clode -- Baldwin Spencer : evolution and Melbourne University / John Mulvaney -- Garden islands : the botanic garden and Darwinian thought in colonial Australia / Richard Aitken -- Tom Roberts' portrait of Charlie Turner and Darwin's Expression of the emotions in man and animals / Jeanette Hoorn -- A gorilla for Melbourne / Ted Gott -- Scientific pursuits, colonial contexts : the works of Louisa Anne Meredith / Amelia Scurry -- Gender, royalty and sexuality in Gould's Birds of Australia / Jonathan Smith -- Wolseley's lines / Alex Taylor -- Is evolution over? Art and the post-Darwinian body / Barbara Creed.
- ISBN
- 9780522856842 (pbk)
- LCCN
- ^^2009483758
- OCLC
- 318642824
- SCSB-10329351
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library