Book ID: CBB001551962

Grown but Not Made: British Modernist Sculpture and the New Biology (2015)

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Juler, Edward (Author)


Manchester University Press


Publication Date: 2015
Physical Details: xvi + 217 + 22 pp.; 8 pages of color plates; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

What does it mean for a sculpture to be described as `organic' or a diagram of `morphological forces'? These were questions that preoccupied Modernist sculptors and critics in Britain as they wrestled with the artistic implications of biological discovery during the 1930s. In this lucid and thought-provoking book, Edward Juler provides the first detailed critical history of British Modernist sculpture's interaction with modern biology. Discussing the significant influence of biologists and scientific philosophers such as D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, Julian Huxley, J. S. Haldane and Alfred North Whitehead on interwar Modernist practice, this book provides radical new interpretations of the work of key British Modernist artists and critics, including Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Paul Nash and Herbert Read. Innovative and interdisciplinary, this pioneering book will appeal to students of art history and the history of science as well as anyone interested in the complex, interweaving histories of art and science in the twentieth century.

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Authors & Contributors
Tamborini, Marco
Sturdy, Steve
Dresow, Max
Sölch, Dennis
Nichols, Kate
Goldstein, Amanda Jo
Concepts
Morphology
Biology
Philosophy of biology
Science and art
Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge
Biographies
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
18th century
Enlightenment
21st century
Places
Great Britain
England
Scotland
Greece
Germany
British Isles
Institutions
British Museum
Crystal Palace
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