Dear Colleagues,
Please forgive any duplication.
The editors are pleased to announce the arrival online of "The Darwin Effect: Evolution and Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture," guest edited by Linda Nochlin and Martha Lucy. This "special issue" of Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide makes available the papers given the Darwin symposium held at NYU's IFA in April 2001.
The journal can be accessed at: http://www.19thc-artworldwide.org/
Table of Contents:
Linda Nochlin, "The Darwin Effect: Introduction"
Elliot Bostwick Davis, "Life Drawing from Ape to Human: Charles Darwin's Theories of Evolution and William Rimmer's Art Anatomy"
Barbara Larson, "Evolution and Degeneration in the Early Work of Odilon Redon"
Michael Leja, "Progress and Evolution at the U.S. World's Fairs, 1893-1915"
Martha Lucy, "Reading the Animal in Degas's Young Spartans"
Marsha Morton, "'Impulses and Desires': Klinger's Darwinian Nature and Society"
Alexander Nemerov, "Haunted Supermasculinity: Strength and Death in Carl Rungius's Wary Game"
Kathleen Pyle, "On Women and Ambivalence in the Evolutionary Topos"
Anyone who has ideas for future special issues on nineteenth-century topics, is invited to contact Petra Chu, managing editor of Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, at [log in to unmask]
Please feel free to share this information with others, and please also consider adding the journal to your library's web page.
Yours sincerely,
Sura Levine
Promotions Manager, Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide
Associate Professor of Art History
Hampshire College
Amherst, MA 01002