Evolutionary Theory and Visual Culture

Michael Dorsch has taught at Hunter College and The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and is the author of French Sculpture Following the Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1880: Realist Allegories and the Commemoration of Defeat. Jean M. Evans is Research Associate at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, USA and is the author of The Lives of Sumerian Sculpture: An Archaeology of the Early Dynastic Temple.

Introduction 1. The Darwin Effect Michael Dorsch and Jean M. Evans Part 1: Aesthetic Thought and the Darwin Effect 2. Locating the Ancient Near East: Darwin, Ornament, and the Origins of Art Jean M. Evans 3. Evolving Styles and the Art-Historical Reception of Iron Age Relief Carvings Vincent van Exel 4. Evolution in Ornament: Charles Frederick Hartt at Cooper Union Daniela P. M. Kern 5. Seeing and Not Seeing: The Post-Darwinian Eye and Aesthetics in Great Britain Barbara Larson Part 2: Artistic Production and the Darwin Effect 6. Evolving From 'Savages': Mannequin Displays of Prehistoric Humans and Race Linda Kim 7. Origins, Loss, and Desire in Gauguin's Tahitian Eve Martha Lucy 8. Monkey Business: Picasso, 'Le douanier' Rousseau and Darwin's Symbiotic Evolution Fae Brauer 9. Hallucinatory Darwin: The Fantasy Illustration of Sidney Sime Leslie Atzmon 10. Conclusion and Looking Ahead: New Directions in the Study of Darwin Michael Dorsch and Jean M. Evans