Reframing Darwin
Evolution and Art in Australia
Reframing Darwin: Evolution and Art in Australia explores the impact of the Darwinian revolution on Australian arts and sciences.
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Reframing Darwin: Evolution and Art in Australia explores the impact of the Darwinian revolution on Australian arts and sciences. Beginning with the voyage of HMS Beagle and concluding with contemporary artists exploring post-Darwinian themes, this book illuminates Darwin's place at the heart of two centuries of intellectual debate in Australia.
Scholars of international standing from within the arts and sciences offer an extraordinary array of perspectives that reveal the breadth and influence of Darwin's ideas and how they manifested at moments throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Reframing Darwin traverses art and visual culture from the late eighteenth century to the present, incorporating issues arising from bio-ethics and cloning, forging a comprehensive framework for understanding the Darwinian revolution.
About the Author
Jeanette Hoorn is Professor of Visual Cultures in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. She is guest curator of the exhibition Reframing Darwin: Evolution and Art in Australia at the Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne (12 August - 1 November), which is part of the bicentenary celebrations of Darwin's birth for 2009. Her current research projects include the European civilising mission and silent cinema; the Moroccan work of Hilda and Elsie Rix; and science and nineteenth-century portraiture in Australia. She has held fellowships at Yale University, the University of California, Berkeley, the University of London and the Australian National University.
Her other books include Australian Pastoral: the Making of White Landscape, Body Trade: Captivity, Cannibalism and Colonialism in the Pacific (with Barbara Creed) and Strange Women: Essays in Art and Gender.
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