D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's generative influences in art, design, and architecture : from forces to forms / edited by Ellen K. Levy and Charissa N. Terranova.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Levy, Ellen K., editor.

Terranova, Charissa N., editor.

ProQuest ebook central.

Series:

Biotechne: interthinking art, science and design

Biotechne : interthinking art, science and design

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thompson, D'Arcy Wentworth, 1860-1948.

Thompson, D'Arcy Wentworth.

Thompson, D'Arcy Wentworth, 1860-1948--Influence.

Thompson, D'Arcy Wentworth, 1860-1948. On growth and form.

Zoologists--Scotland--Biography.

Zoologists.

Growth.

Form (Aesthetics).

Morphology (Animals).

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Art and science.

Scotland.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxii, 240 pages) : illustrations (some color).

polychrome

Place of Publication:

London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021.

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2021]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

List of PlatesList of FiguresList of ContributorsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsTimelineIntroduction, 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

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Print version: 'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's generative influences in art, design, and architecture.

ISBN:

9781350191136

1350191132

9781350191143

1350191140

9781350191129

1350191124

Publisher Number:

99987125161

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