Endless Forms: Charles Darwin, Natural Science, and the Visual Arts (Yale Center for British Art)

by Diana Donald (Editor)

Other authorsJane Munro (Editor), Fitzwillian Museum Cambridge (Editor)
Hardcover, 2009

Status

Available

Call number

701.03

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Publication

Yale University Press (2009), Edition: 1st Edition, 346 pages

Description

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

Awards

Spear's Book Award (Shortlist — 2009)

Language

Original language

English

Physical description

346 p.; 9.75 inches

ISBN

0300148267 / 9780300148268

Barcode

91100000178070

DDC/MDS

701.03
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