Scottish zoologist D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's visionary ideas in On Growth and Form continue to evolve a century after its publication, aligning it with current developments in art and science. Practitioners, theorists, and historians from art, science, and design reflect on his ongoing influence. Overall, the anthology links evolutionary theory to form generation in both scientific and cultural domains. It offers a close look at the ways cells, organisms, and rules become generative in fields often otherwise disconnected. United by Thompson's original exploration of how physical forces…mehr
Scottish zoologist D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's visionary ideas in On Growth and Form continue to evolve a century after its publication, aligning it with current developments in art and science. Practitioners, theorists, and historians from art, science, and design reflect on his ongoing influence. Overall, the anthology links evolutionary theory to form generation in both scientific and cultural domains. It offers a close look at the ways cells, organisms, and rules become generative in fields often otherwise disconnected. United by Thompson's original exploration of how physical forces propel and shape living and nonliving forms, essays range from art, art history, and neuroscience to architecture, design, and biology. Contributors explore how translations are made from the discipline of biology to the cultural arena. They reflect on how Thompson's study relates to the current sciences of epigenesis, self-organization, biological complex systems, and the expanded evolutionary synthesis. Cross-disciplinary contributors explore the wide-ranging aesthetic ramifications of these sciences. A timeline links the history of evolutionary theory with cultural achievements, providing the reader with a valuable resource.
Ellen K. Levy, a past president of the College Art Association, has exhibited her art internationally and at NASA and has published widely on art and evolution. Before earning her doctorate in art and neuroscience in 2012 from the University of Plymouth, UK, she was Distinguished Visiting Fellow in Arts & Sciences at Skidmore College, USA. She guest-edited Art Journal's special issue, "Contemporary Art and the Genetic Code" (1996), the first in-depth academic publication about genomics and art. Charissa N. Terranova is Professor of Aesthetic Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas, USA. She researches the relationship between culture and science, focusing on the history of evolutionary theory and biology in art and architecture. She is author of Art as Organism: Biology and the Evolution of the Digital Image (2016) and Automotive Prosthetic: Technological Mediation and the Car in Conceptual Art (2014), and co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Biology in Art and Architecture (2016) with Meredith Tromble.
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List of Plates List of Figures List of Contributors Preface Acknowledgments Timeline Introduction Ellen K. Levy (Artist and Independent Scholar USA) and Charissa N. Terranova (University of Texas at Dallas USA) 1. Are All Fish the Same if You Stretch Them? The Victorian Tale of On Growth and Form Stephen Wolfram (Wolfram Research USA) 2. Physics in Biology - Has D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson Been Vindicated? Evelyn Fox Keller (Massachusetts Institute of Technology USA) 3. On the Beauty of the Metacarpal Hadas A. Steiner (State University of New York at Buffalo USA) 4. "Drawn from structures living and dead" - Collections and Connections Growing and Forming Matthew Jarron (University of Dundee Museum Collections Scotland) 5. D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson and Dorothy Wrinch: A Friendship 1918-1948 Marjorie Senechal (Smith College USA) 6. D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's Surrealism Brandon Taylor (University of Southampton UK and Oxford University UK) 7. Structures of Light as 'An Ethnologist's Jewels': D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson The Independent Group and Montage Assimina Kaniari (Athens School of Fine Arts Greece) 8. Exhibition as Extended Organism: The Evolutionary Agency of Richard Hamilton's Growth and Form Charissa N. Terranova (University of Texas at Dallas USA) 9. The Invisible Motives of Growth and Form Caroline O'Donnell (CODA USA) 10. Diagrams of Entropic Forces: New Growth and Form Philip Beesley (University of Waterloo Canada) 11. Tracing Threads of the Living Organism Ellen K. Levy (Artist and Independent Scholar USA) 12. The Growth and Form of ArtNano Innovations: Inspirations from D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's On Growth and Form Todd Siler (Artist USA) 13. On Growth and Form and Lightweight Structures Sarah Bonnemaison (Dalhousie University Canada) 14. D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson Going Forward Between Chance and Necessity Philip Ball (Independent Scholar UK) Image as Argument: D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson and Contemporary Scientific Discourse Justine Kupferman (Kallyope Inc. USA) Reflections on Influence Carolee Schneemann (Artist USA d. 2019) D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson and Polycrystalline Pattern Formation Bart Kahr (New York University USA) Conversations with D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson Ellen K. Levy (Artist and Independent Scholar USA) The Vortex and D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson Meredith Tromble (Artist and Independent Scholar USA) Deployable and Other Structural Forms Henry Petroski (Duke University USA) Index
List of Plates List of Figures List of Contributors Preface Acknowledgments Timeline Introduction Ellen K. Levy (Artist and Independent Scholar USA) and Charissa N. Terranova (University of Texas at Dallas USA) 1. Are All Fish the Same if You Stretch Them? The Victorian Tale of On Growth and Form Stephen Wolfram (Wolfram Research USA) 2. Physics in Biology - Has D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson Been Vindicated? Evelyn Fox Keller (Massachusetts Institute of Technology USA) 3. On the Beauty of the Metacarpal Hadas A. Steiner (State University of New York at Buffalo USA) 4. "Drawn from structures living and dead" - Collections and Connections Growing and Forming Matthew Jarron (University of Dundee Museum Collections Scotland) 5. D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson and Dorothy Wrinch: A Friendship 1918-1948 Marjorie Senechal (Smith College USA) 6. D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's Surrealism Brandon Taylor (University of Southampton UK and Oxford University UK) 7. Structures of Light as 'An Ethnologist's Jewels': D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson The Independent Group and Montage Assimina Kaniari (Athens School of Fine Arts Greece) 8. Exhibition as Extended Organism: The Evolutionary Agency of Richard Hamilton's Growth and Form Charissa N. Terranova (University of Texas at Dallas USA) 9. The Invisible Motives of Growth and Form Caroline O'Donnell (CODA USA) 10. Diagrams of Entropic Forces: New Growth and Form Philip Beesley (University of Waterloo Canada) 11. Tracing Threads of the Living Organism Ellen K. Levy (Artist and Independent Scholar USA) 12. The Growth and Form of ArtNano Innovations: Inspirations from D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's On Growth and Form Todd Siler (Artist USA) 13. On Growth and Form and Lightweight Structures Sarah Bonnemaison (Dalhousie University Canada) 14. D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson Going Forward Between Chance and Necessity Philip Ball (Independent Scholar UK) Image as Argument: D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson and Contemporary Scientific Discourse Justine Kupferman (Kallyope Inc. USA) Reflections on Influence Carolee Schneemann (Artist USA d. 2019) D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson and Polycrystalline Pattern Formation Bart Kahr (New York University USA) Conversations with D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson Ellen K. Levy (Artist and Independent Scholar USA) The Vortex and D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson Meredith Tromble (Artist and Independent Scholar USA) Deployable and Other Structural Forms Henry Petroski (Duke University USA) Index
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