Picturing evolution and extinction : regeneration and degeneration in modern visual culture / / edited by Fae Brauer and Serena Keshavjee

• Pubblicazione: Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (302 p.)
• Disciplina: 701.05
• Soggetto topico: Art and science; Art and technology
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): KeshavjeeSerena; BrauerFae
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Sommario/riassunto: With the increasing loss of biological diversity in this Sixth Age of Mass Extinction, it is timely to show that devolutionary paranoia is not new, but rather stretches back to the time of Charles Darwin. It is also an opportune moment to show how human-driven extinction, as designated by the term, Anthropocene, has long been acknowledged. The halcyon days of European industrial progress, colonial expansion and scientific revolution trumpeted from the Great Exhibition of 1851 until the Dresden International Hygiene Exhibition of 1930 were constantly marred by fears of rampant degeneration, dep
• Titolo autorizzato: Picturing evolution and extinction
• ISBN: 1-4438-8437-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910460648103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II