TY - BOOK AU - Botar,Oliver A.I. AU - Wünsche,Isabel AU - Botar,Oliver A.I. TI - Biocentrism and Modernism SN - 9781409400509 (hardcover) AV - N6465 .M63B68 2011 PY - 2011///] CY - Farnham, Surrey, England PB - ASHGATE KW - Modernism (Art) KW - Nature (Aesthetics) KW - Human ecology in art N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-259) and index; Defining Biocentrism / Oliver A. I. Botar -- Rereading Bioromanticism / Monika Wucher -- The naming of Biomorphism / Jennifer Mundy -- On the biology of the inorganic: Crystallography and discourses of latent life in the art and architectural historiography of the early twentieth century / Spyros Papapetros -- Traces of organicism in gardening and urban planning theories in early twentieth-century Germany / David Haney and Elke Sohn -- Organic visions and biological models in Russian avant-garde art / Isabel Wünsche -- Biocentrism and anarchy: Herbert Read's Modernism / Allan Antliff -- Organicism among the Cubists: The case of Raymond Duchamp-Villon / Mark Antliff -- Klee's Neo-Romanticism: The wages of scientific curiosity / Sara Lynn Henry -- Kandinsky and science: The introduction of biological images in the Paris period / Vivian Endicott Barnett -- Pollock's dream of a Biocentric art: The challenge of his and Peter Blake's Ideal Museum / Elizabeth Langhorne ER -