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Laddar... Charles Darwin and Victorian Visual Culture (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture) (utgåvan 2009)av Jonathan Smith
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Although The Origin of Species contained just a single visual illustration, Charles Darwin's other books, from his monograph on barnacles in the early 1850s to his volume on earthworms in 1881, were copiously illustrated by well-known artists and engravers. In this 2006 book, Jonathan Smith explains how Darwin managed to illustrate the unillustratable - his theories of natural selection - by manipulating and modifying the visual conventions of natural history, using images to support the claims made in his texts. Moreover, Smith looks outward to analyse the relationships between Darwin's illustrations and Victorian visual culture, especially the late-Victorian debates about aesthetics, and shows how Darwin's evolutionary explanation of beauty, based on his observations of colour and the visual in nature, were a direct challenge to the aesthetics of John Ruskin. The many illustrations reproduced here enhance this fascinating study of a little known aspect of Darwin's lasting influence on literature, art and culture. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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It's good work-- but often the kind of literature and science work that doesn't hold a lot of interest for me personally. Like, I feel like Smith is way more into pictures of birds or faces than I will ever be. The strongest parts of the book are when Smith taps into those bigger cultural debates I cited in the previous paragraph; Smith lays out Ruskin's view of science very well, which will be of use to me as I work with those concepts in the book I'm working on. But the close readings of how Darwin worked with images sometimes got monotonous to me.