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.
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Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
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Aesthetics, Modern.
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Aesthetics.
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Art and science.
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Author |
Flach, Sabine.
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Larson, Barbara (Barbara Jean)
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LC no. |
2012012832 |
ISBN |
1409448703 (hbk.) |
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9781409448709 (hbk.) |
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