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Title Darwin and theories of aesthetics and cultural history / edited by Barbara Larson and Sabine Flach
Published Farnham : Ashgate, 2012

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Description xi, 176 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Darwin, Burke, and the biological sublime / Barbara Larson -- Why is the peacock's tail so beautiful? / Laurence Shafe -- Art's "contest with nature" : Darwin, Haeckel, and the scientific art history of Alois Riegl / Marsha Morton -- Cultural selection and the shape of time / Larry Silver -- The evolution of culture or the cultural history of the evolutionary concept : epistemological problems at the interface between the two cultures / Sigrid Weigel -- Communicating vessels : on the development of a theory of representation in Darwin and Warburg / Sabine Flach -- On mimicry in Darwin and surrealism / Jan Söffner -- Contemporary art and the aesthetics of natural selection / Ellen K. Levy
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 -- Influence.
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
Aesthetics, Modern.
Aesthetics.
Art and science.
Author Flach, Sabine.
Larson, Barbara (Barbara Jean)
LC no. 2012012832
ISBN 1409448703 (hbk.)
9781409448709 (hbk.)