{"product_id":"darcy-wentworth-thompsons-generative-influences-in-art-design-and-architecture-9781350191150","title":"DArcy Wentworth Thompsons Generative Influences","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eScottish zoologist D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's visionary ideas in \u003ci\u003eOn Growth and Form\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eD’Arcy Wentworth Thompson’s Generative Influences in Art, Design, and Architecture\u003c\/i\u003e 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 *\u003cbr\u003eD’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 \u0026amp; Philosophy of Science, University College London, UK and author of \"The Artist in the Machine: The World of AI-Powered Creativity\" *\u003cbr\u003eThe 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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Plates List of Figures List of Contributors Preface Acknowledgments Timeline  Introduction, \u003ci\u003eEllen K. Levy (Artist and Independent Scholar, USA) and Charissa N. Terranova (University of Texas at Dallas, USA) \u003c\/i\u003e 1. Are All Fish the Same if You Stretch Them? The Victorian Tale of \u003ci\u003eOn Growth and Form, Stephen Wolfram (Wolfram Research, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  2. Physics in Biology – Has D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson Been Vindicated?\u003ci\u003e Evelyn Fox Keller (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  3. On the Beauty of the Metacarpal, \u003ci\u003eHadas A. Steiner (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  4. “Drawn from structures living and dead” – Collections and Connections, Growing and Forming, \u003ci\u003eMatthew Jarron (University of Dundee Museum Collections, Scotland)\u003c\/i\u003e  5. D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson and Dorothy Wrinch: A Friendship, 1918–1948, \u003ci\u003eMarjorie Senechal (Smith College, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  6. D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson’s Surrealism, \u003ci\u003eBrandon Taylor (University of Southampton, UK and Oxford University, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e  7. Structures of Light as ‘An Ethnologist’s Jewels’: D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson, The Independent Group and Montage, \u003ci\u003eAssimina Kaniari (Athens School of Fine Arts, Greece) \u003c\/i\u003e 8. Exhibition as Extended Organism: The Evolutionary Agency of Richard Hamilton’s Growth and Form, \u003ci\u003eCharissa N. Terranova (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  9. The Invisible Motives of Growth and Form, \u003ci\u003eCaroline O’Donnell (CODA, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  10. Diagrams of Entropic Forces: New Growth and Form, \u003ci\u003ePhilip Beesley (University of Waterloo, Canada)\u003c\/i\u003e  11. Tracing Threads of the Living Organism,\u003ci\u003e Ellen K. Levy (Artist and Independent Scholar, USA) \u003c\/i\u003e 12. The Growth and Form of ArtNano Innovations: Inspirations from D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson’s \u003ci\u003eOn Growth and Form, Todd Siler (Artist, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  13. \u003ci\u003eOn Growth and Form\u003c\/i\u003e and Lightweight Structures, \u003ci\u003eSarah Bonnemaison (Dalhousie University, Canada)\u003c\/i\u003e  14. D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson Going Forward  Between Chance and Necessity, \u003ci\u003ePhilip Ball (Independent Scholar, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e Image as Argument: D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson and Contemporary Scientific Discourse, \u003ci\u003eJustine Kupferman (Kallyope, Inc., USA)\u003c\/i\u003e Reflections on Influence, \u003ci\u003eCarolee Schneemann (Artist, USA, d. 2019)\u003c\/i\u003e D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson and Polycrystalline Pattern Formation,\u003ci\u003e Bart Kahr (New York University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e Conversations with D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson, \u003ci\u003eEllen K. Levy (Artist and Independent Scholar, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e The Vortex and D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson,\u003ci\u003e Meredith Tromble (Artist and Independent Scholar, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e Deployable and Other Structural Forms, \u003ci\u003eHenry Petroski (Duke University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407519818071,"sku":"9781350191150","price":28.94,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350191150.jpg?v=1730499649","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/darcy-wentworth-thompsons-generative-influences-in-art-design-and-architecture-9781350191150","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}