Biocentrism and Modernism

Download or read book Biocentrism and Modernism written by Oliver Arpad Istvan Botar and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the intersections between art and scientific approaches to the natural world, Biocentrism and Modernism reveals another side to Modernism's development. While historians have usually framed this movement as being mechanistic and against nature, the essays in this collection illuminate the role that nature-centric ideologies played in late-nineteenth to mid-twentieth-century Modernism. Looking at philosophy and application, this volume features case studies of artists such as Duchamp-Villon, Klee, Kandinsky, and Pollock.