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Natural Disorder: The Animal Image In French And British Art Before Darwin, C. 1790-1859, Noelle Paulson
Natural Disorder: The Animal Image In French And British Art Before Darwin, C. 1790-1859, Noelle Paulson
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This study of the animal form in French and British art reveals humanity's shifting self-image as new theories of species transmutation replaced hierarchical models of nature in the half-century before the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species in 1859. To assert various qualities of difference, distance, similitude, and proximity between species, visual artists represented animals either in humanized guises or in contexts of encounter with humans. Animal imagery was especially malleable during this period when science and pseudo-science both confronted the possibility that species were susceptible to gradual change over time rather than fixed in form since …
150 Years Of History And Preservation At Cahokia Mounds, Christa Wroblewski
150 Years Of History And Preservation At Cahokia Mounds, Christa Wroblewski
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