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D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's Generative Influences in Art, Design, and Architecture Ellen K. Levy (independent artist and scholar, USA)

D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's Generative Influences in Art, Design, and Architecture By Ellen K. Levy (independent artist and scholar, USA)

D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's Generative Influences in Art, Design, and Architecture by Ellen K. Levy (independent artist and scholar, USA)

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D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's Generative Influences in Art, Design, and Architecture: From Forces to Forms by Ellen K. Levy (independent artist and scholar, USA)

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.

D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's Generative Influences in Art, Design, and Architecture Reviews

D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's Generative Influences in Art, Design, and Architecture offers a significant contribution in its explication of the interrelationships between art, architecture, design, and biology and in situating Thompson's biological model within a broad cultural frame. * Woman's Art Journal *
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, in his beautifully written book, On Growth and Form, describes how if artists wanted to look for beauty in nature, they would have to turn to science. The present new volume is a fitting tribute to this accomplished thinker. * Arthur I. Miller, Emeritus Professor of History & Philosophy of Science, University College London, UK and author of The Artist in the Machine: The World of AI-Powered Creativity *
The life and work of D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson is a reminder of what can be achieved when we remove the silos into which so many academic disciplines have been confined. By revealing Thompson's immense influence, this book offers a profound argument for the interdependence of art, science and technology. * Eleanor Heartney, Contributing Editor, Art in America and Artpress, USA *

About Ellen K. Levy (independent artist and scholar, USA)

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.

Table of Contents

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

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NGR9781350191150
9781350191150
1350191159
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's Generative Influences in Art, Design, and Architecture: From Forces to Forms by Ellen K. Levy (independent artist and scholar, USA)
Ellen K. Levy (independent artist and scholar, USA)
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2023-04-20
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