Reframing Darwin: Evolution And The Arts In Australia

Reframing Darwin: Evolution And The Arts In Australia

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REFRAMING DARWIN: EVOLUTION AND THE ARTS IN AUSTRALIA is a book of essays about the impact of Darwinian thought on Australian art, science and culture, beginning with the voyage of HMS Beagle and finishing with bio-ethics and the Post-Darwinian body. These essays accompany the exhibition Darwin's Cornucopia: Charles Darwin in Australia, showing at The Ian Potter Museum of Art the University of Melbourne from August 14 to November 1, 2009. An impressive range of international scholars have contributed material to the volume. Roger Macdonald writes about his multi-award winning book MR DARWIN'S SHOOTER; John Mulvaney considers Walter Baldwin Spencer's introduction of Darwinian science at the University of Melbourne; Danielle Clode debates 19th century evolutionary biology and Richard Aitkens looks at garden history and evolutionary botany. Jeanette Hoorn uncovers Darwin's ideas in Tom Roberts portraits; Jonathan Smith discusses Darwin's subversion of Victorian gender norms; Amelia Scurry examines Tasmanian artist Louisa Meredith's involvement within the scientific community in Hobart; Ted Gott examines the arrival in Melbourne of the bronze statuette Gorilla carrying off a woman 1887 by French artist Emmanuel Fremiet and Barbara Creed explores issues around bio ethics and cloning and the emergence of a "post-Darwinian" body in contemporary Australian art.

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