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Darwin and theories of aesthetics and cultural history / edited by Barbara Larson and Sabine Flach.
- Title
- Darwin and theories of aesthetics and cultural history / edited by Barbara Larson and Sabine Flach.
- Publication
- Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2012.
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- Description
- 1 v. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction / Barbara Larson -- 1. Darwin, Burke, and the biological sublime / Barbara Larson -- 2. Why is the peacock's tail so beautiful? / Laurence Shafe -- 3. Art's "contest with nature": Darwin, Haeckel, and the scientific art history of Alois Riegl / Marsha Morton -- 4. Cultural selection and the shape of time / Larry Silver -- 5. The evolution of culture or the cultural history of the evolutionary concept: epistemological problems at the interface between the two cultures / Sigrid Weigel -- 6. Communicating vessels: on the development of a theory of representation in Darwin and Warbug / Sabine Flach -- 7. On mimicry in Darwin and surrealism / Jan Söffner -- 8. Contemporary art and the aesthetics of natural selection / Ellen K. Levy.
- ISBN
- 9781409448709 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 1409448703 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2012012832
- OCLC
- 782995911
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library