The art of evolution: Darwin, Darwinisms, and visual culture

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Darwin in caricature: a study in the popularization and dissemination of evolutionary theory / Janet Browne -- Ugly disagreements: Darwin and Ruskin discuss sex and beauty / Phillip Prodger -- From monera to man: Ernst Haeckel, Darwinismus, and nineteenth-century German art / Marsha Morton -- Protoplasmania: Huxley, Haeckel, and the vibratory organism in late nineteenth-century science and art / Robert Michael Brain -- Framing Darwin: a portrait of eugenics / Fae Brauer -- "One of a long row only": sexual selection and the male gaze in Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles / James Krasner -- Darwin's sexual selection and the jealous male in fin-de-siecle art / Barbara Larson -- Wild beasts and tame primates: "Le Douanier" Rousseau's dream of Darwin's evolution / Fae Brauer -- Imag(in)ing post-revolutionary evolution: the Taylorized proletarian, "conditioning", and Soviet Darwinism in the 1920s / Pat Simpson -- Emotional fusion with the animal kingdom: notes toward a natural history of surrealism / Gavin Parkinson -- Darwin on the threshold of the visible: contemporary art and evolution / Sara Barnes and Andrew Patrizio.