The art of evolution : Darwin, Darwinisms, and visual culture / edited by Barbara Larson and Fae Brauer.

Contributor(s): Larson, Barbara (Barbara Jean) | Brauer, FaeMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Interfaces, studies in visual culturePublication details: Hanover, N.H. : Dartmouth College Press : Published by University Press of New England, c2009Description: ix, 332 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: 9781584657750 (cloth : alk. paper); 1584657758 (cloth : alk. paper)Subject(s): Science and the arts | Arts and society | Natural history -- Social aspectsDDC classification: 700.1/05 LOC classification: NX180.S3 | A772 2009
Contents:
Darwin in caricature: a study in the popularization and dissemination of evolutionary theory / Janet Browne -- Ugly disagreements: Darwin and Ruskin discuss sex and beauty / Phillip Prodger -- From monera to man: Ernst Haeckel, Darwinismus, and nineteenth-century German art / Marsha Morton -- Protoplasmania: Huxley, Haeckel, and the vibratory organism in late nineteenth-century science and art / Robert Michael Brain -- Framing Darwin: a portrait of eugenics / Fae Brauer -- "One of a long row only": sexual selection and the male gaze in Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles / James Krasner -- Darwin's sexual selection and the jealous male in fin-de-siècle art / Barbara Larson -- Wild beasts and tame primates: "Le Douanier" Rousseau's dream of Darwin's evolution / Fae Brauer -- Imag(in)ing post-revolutionary evolution: the Taylorized proletarian, "conditioning", and Soviet Darwinism in the 1920s / Pat Simpson -- Emotional fusion with the animal kingdom: notes toward a natural history of surrealism / Gavin Parkinson -- Darwin on the threshold of the visible: contemporary art and evolution / Sara Barnes and Andrew Patrizio.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Darwin in caricature: a study in the popularization and dissemination of evolutionary theory / Janet Browne -- Ugly disagreements: Darwin and Ruskin discuss sex and beauty / Phillip Prodger -- From monera to man: Ernst Haeckel, Darwinismus, and nineteenth-century German art / Marsha Morton -- Protoplasmania: Huxley, Haeckel, and the vibratory organism in late nineteenth-century science and art / Robert Michael Brain -- Framing Darwin: a portrait of eugenics / Fae Brauer -- "One of a long row only": sexual selection and the male gaze in Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles / James Krasner -- Darwin's sexual selection and the jealous male in fin-de-siècle art / Barbara Larson -- Wild beasts and tame primates: "Le Douanier" Rousseau's dream of Darwin's evolution / Fae Brauer -- Imag(in)ing post-revolutionary evolution: the Taylorized proletarian, "conditioning", and Soviet Darwinism in the 1920s / Pat Simpson -- Emotional fusion with the animal kingdom: notes toward a natural history of surrealism / Gavin Parkinson -- Darwin on the threshold of the visible: contemporary art and evolution / Sara Barnes and Andrew Patrizio.

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