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Author Ridley, Hugh.

Title Darwin Becomes Art : Aesthetic Vision in the Wake of Darwin: 1870-1920.

Publication Info. Amsterdam : Editions Rodopi, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (236 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 175
Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 175.
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Alexander von Humboldt Sets the Theme; In the midst of nature; Humboldt and the 'clarity of things'; 2 Darwin and the German Public; The Naturalist movement; Naturalism in Germany; Häckel and Virchow: preliminary skirmishes; The big dispute; A rehearsal for Scope's Monkey; Darwin and Nietzsche; 3 Naturalism in Nature; The wild garden; Tat twam asi -- so you are too; Down on the farm with the Naturalist novel; More vegetative nature; Darwinism and Primitivism; Back to the trees.
4 Naturalism and the Objective Eye: Bird Portraiturebetween Art and PhotographyGeneral premises; The emergence of scientific illustration; Photography offers new possibilities; Photography and literature; Birds between art and science; Consumerism; The relevance of literary debates about Naturalism; Photograph or painting?; 5 Objectivizing Feeling: The Novel, Acting and Darwin'sThe Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals; The expression of the emotions in Literature; Non-Darwinian approaches to the field; Between physiognomy and Darwin: the novel.
Physical description, race, and anti-SemitismActing and the expression of emotions; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
Summary This book analyses Darwin's influence on art and the effect of his science on experiences of beauty. The first chapter discusses Darwin's great forerunner, Alexander von Humboldt, and his contribution to thinking about the relationship between science and beauty. The second examines the public reception of Darwin in Germany, focusing on the German Naturalists and the important scientific controversies which Darwin's idea provoked. It shows the political use of science (Häckel and Virchow) and foreshadows present-day debates between Darwinism and Creationism, science and an idealized view of na.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject Aesthetics.
Aesthetics.
Art, Modern.
Art, Modern.
Philosophy.
Philosophy.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Ridley, Hugh. Darwin Becomes Art : Aesthetic Vision in the Wake of Darwin: 1870-1920. Amsterdam : Editions Rodopi, ©2014 9789042038479
ISBN 9789401210904 (electronic book)
940121090X (electronic book)
9042038470
9789042038479