Biocentrism and Modernism. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Oliver A.I. Botar and Isabel Wünsche.
• Editors: Botar, Oliver A. I (Oliver Arpad Istvan), 1957-; Wünsche, Isabel
• Other Names: Botar, Oliver A. I (Oliver Arpad Istvan), 1957-
• Contents: Defining Biocentrism / Oliver A.I. Botar -- Rereading Bioromanticism / Monika Wucher -- The naming of Biomorphism / Jennifer Mundy -- On the biology of the inorganic: Crystallography and discourses of latent life in the art and architectural historiography of the early twentieth century / Spyros Papapetros -- Traces of organicism in gardening and urban planning theories in early twentieth-century Germany / David Haney and Elke Sohn -- Organic visions and biological models in Russian avant-garde art / Isabel Wünsche -- Biocentrism and anarchy: Herbert Read's Modernism / Allan Antliff -- Organicism among the Cubists: The case of Raymond Duchamp-Villon / Mark Antliff -- Klee's Neo-Romanticism: The wages of scientific curiosity / Sara Lynn Henry -- Kandinsky and science: The introduction of biological images in the Paris period / Vivian Endicott Barnett -- Pollock's dream of a Biocentric art: The challenge of his and Peter Blake's Ideal Museum / Elizabeth Langhorne.
• Publisher Details: Abingdon, Oxon New York : Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 709.04; Modernism (Art); Nature (Aesthetics); Human ecology in art; Human ecology in art; Modernism (Art); Nature (Aesthetics); Modernisme (art); Écologie -- Dans l'art; Modernism (konst); Humanekologi i konsten; Naturen i konsten; ART / General; ART / Subjects & Themes / General; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351573733
• Related ISBNs: 135157373X; 9781409400509
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-259) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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