Title & Author:

Endless forms : Charles Darwin, natural science and the visual arts / edited by Diana Donald and Jane Munro.

Publication:

Cambridge, UK : Fitzwilliam Museum ; New Haven [Conn.] : Yale Center for British Art ; New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, 2009.

Description:

xiii, 344 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 30 cm.

Series:

Yale Center for British Art series

Notes:
"This publication accompanies the exhibition Endless forms : Charles Darwin, Natural Science and the Visual Arts, organised by the Fitzwilliam Museum in association with the Yale Center for British Art, on view at the Yale Center for British Art from 12 February to 3 May 2009 and at the Fitzwilliam Museum from 16 June to 4 October 2009"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-332) and index.
Darwin at home : observation and taste at Down House / Julius Bryant -- The history of the earth : Darwin, geology and landscape art / Rebecca Bedell -- The 'struggle for existence' in nature and human society / Diana Donald -- Art and the 'entangled bank' : colour and beauty out of the 'war of nature' / Diana Donald and Jan Eric Olsén -- 'What is meant by this system?' : Charles Darwin and the visual re-ordering of nature / Nicola Gauld -- Mankind after Darwin and nineteenth-century art / David Bindman -- Evolving images ; photography, race and popular Darwinism / Elizabeth Edwards -- 'A mind and conscience akin to our own' : Darwin's theory of expression and the depiction of animals in nineteenth-century Britain / Diana Donald -- Monkeys, apes and evolutionary theory : from human descent to King Kong / Julia Voss -- Evolutionary aesthetics and Victorian visual culture / Jonathan Smith -- 'More like a work of art than of nature' : Darwin, beauty and sexual selection / Jane Munro -- Monet and the monkeys : the Impressionist encounter with Darwinism / Richard Kendall.

Summary:

"This illustrated book is the first to explore Darwin's links with artistic traditions and his impact on the visual arts in Europe and America in the nineteenth century. Bringing together art and science in a completely original way, it sets works by major artists such as Church, Landseer, Heade, Redon, Cezanne and Monet in a fresh and illuminating context. In grand landscape painting and dioramas, in imaginary scenes of prehistory and early human life, in depictions of exotic birds and of life in the wild, Darwin's sense of the interplay of all living things and of the beauties of colour and form in nature proved vital."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Additional Information at Google Books

ISBN:

9780300148268 (alk. paper)
0300148267 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 influenser.
Art and science.
Art and society History 19th century.
Natural history Social aspects.
Evolution (Biology)
Evolution.
Biological Evolution
Art et sciences.
Art et société Histoire 19e siècle.
Sciences naturelles Aspect social.
Évolution (Biologie)
evolution.
Art and society
Konst och vetenskap.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition publications.
History

Added entries:

Donald, Diana.
Munro, Jane.
Yale Center for British Art series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 263669
Call No.: BIB 194899
Status: Available