Darwin and theories of aesthetics and cultural history /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Larson, Barbara (Barbara Jean), Flach, Sabine
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2013]
Subjects:	Aesthetics. Darwin, Charles, > 1809-1882.

Table of Contents:

Introduction / Barbara Larson
1. Darwin, Burke, and the biological sublime / Barbara Larson
2. Why is the peacock's tail so beautiful? / Laurence Shafe
3. Art's "contest with nature": Darwin, Haeckel, and the scientific art history of Alois Riegl / Marsha Morton
4. Cultural selection and the shape of time / Larry Silver
5. The evolution of culture or the cultural history of the evolutionary concept: epistemological problems at the interface between the two cultures / Sigrid Weigel
6. Communicating vessels: on the development of a theory of representation in Darwin and Warbug / Sabine Flach
7. On mimicry in Darwin and surrealism / Jan Söffner
8. Contemporary art and the aesthetics of natural selection / Ellen K. Levy.