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

Ellen K. Levy, a past president of the College Art Association, has exhibited her art internationally and at NASA and has published widely on art and evolution. Before earning her doctorate in art and neuroscience in 2012 from the University of Plymouth, UK, she was Distinguished Visiting Fellow in Arts & Sciences at Skidmore College, USA. She guest-edited Art Journal’s special issue, “Contemporary Art and the Genetic Code” (1996), the first in-depth academic publication about genomics and art. Charissa N. Terranova is Professor of Aesthetic Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas, USA. She researches the relationship between culture and science, focusing on the history of evolutionary theory and biology in art and architecture. She is author of Art as Organism: Biology and the Evolution of the Digital Image (2016) and Automotive Prosthetic: Technological Mediation and the Car in Conceptual Art (2014), and co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Biology in Art and Architecture (2016) with Meredith Tromble.

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)

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