Endless Forms Charles Darwin, Natural Science, and the Visual Arts
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Edited by Diana Donald & Jane Munro Published by Yale University Press in February 2009 in conjunction with the exhibition of the same title, . Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 12 February to 3 May 2009; . Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 16 June to 4 October 2009. Hard cover with jacket, 288 pages, 25x29cm, 100 black-&-white illustrations & 150 colour images, Isbn: 9780300148268 Charles Darwin's theories have had a profound influence on research in biology and ecology. But they also inspired many nineteenth-century artists, providing insights into the dynamic workings of nature and our relationship to animals-spawning new ideas about art itself and the meaning of beauty. This was a two-way process. Darwin himself-a keen and brilliant observer of nature-was influenced not just by natural history illustrations but the imaginative themes of contemporary painters. This lavishly 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 nieteenth 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.