D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's Generative Influences in Art, Design, and Architecture (eBook, ePUB)

From Forces to Forms
Redaktion: Levy, Ellen K.; Terranova, Charissa N.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350191136
• Artikelnr.: 61089930

Autorenporträt

Ellen K. Levy is an independent artist and scholar in New York, USA. Charissa N. Terranova is Associate Professor of Aesthetic Studies, University of Texas at Dallas, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

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