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Charles Darwin, Natural Science, and the Visual Arts
Edited by Diana Donald and Jane Munro
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Format: ClothPrice: $65.00
A gorgeously illustrated book that is the first to explore the impact of Darwin’s ideas about man and nature on 19th-century visual arts
Charles Darwin’s revolutionary theories of evolution and natural selection have not only had a profound influence on the fields of biology and natural history, but also provided fertile territory for the creative imagination. This lavishly illustrated book accompanies an exhibition organized by the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, in association with the Yale Center for British Art, that will coincide with the global celebration of the bicentenary of Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859).
The essays in this exceptionally wide-ranging book examine both the profound impact that Darwin’s ideas had on European and American artists and the ways in which his theories were influenced by the visual traditions he inherited. In works by artists as diverse as Church, Landseer, Liljefors, Heade, Redon, Cézanne, Lear, Tissot, Rossetti, and Monet, from imaginative projections of prehistory to troubled evocations of a life dominated by the struggle for existence, Darwin’s sense of the interplay of all living things and his response to the beauties of the natural world proved inspirational.
Published in association with the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Yale Center for British Art
Exhibition Schedule:
Yale Center for British Art (2/12/09 – 5/3/09)
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (6/16/09 – 10/4/09)
Diana Donald is the former Head of the Department of History of Art and Design at Manchester Metropolitan University. Jane Munro is Senior Assistant Keeper of Paintings, Drawings, and Prints at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
Yale Center for British Art (2/12/09 – 5/3/09)
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (6/16/09 – 10/4/09)
Publication Date: April 21, 2009
Publishing Partner: Published in association with the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Yale Center for British Art
100 b/w + 150 color illus.
