The Art and Science of Ernst Haeckel. 40th Ed.
30Disponibilità: DisponibileScopri Ernst Haeckel, l'artista biologo del XIX secolo che scovava la bellezza nelle creature più improbabili. Questa raccolta e contiene 300 stampe tratte dalle sue pubblicazioni più importanti come la magnifica Kunstformen der Natur e i suoi cataloghi di vita marina. Queste immagini bellissime sono capolavori scientifici, artistici e ambientali.
The Art and Science of Ernst Haeckel. 40th Ed.
30Microbial Marvels
Ernst Haeckel, the 19th-century pioneer who captured the artistic beauty of the natural world
At the heart of Haeckel’s colossal legacy was the motivation not only to discover but also to explain. To do this, he created hundreds of detailed drawings, watercolors, and sketches of his findings which he published in successive volumes, including several marine organism collections and the majestic Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms in Nature), which could serve as the cornerstone of Haeckel’s entire life project. Like a meticulous visual encyclopedia of living things, Haeckel’s work was as remarkable for its graphic precision and meticulous shading as for its understanding of organic evolution. From bats to the box jellyfish, lizards to lichen, and spider legs to sea anemones, Haeckel emphasized the essential symmetries and order of nature, and found biological beauty in even the most unlikely of creatures.
In this book, we celebrate the scientific, artistic, and environmental importance of Haeckel’s work, with a collection of 300 of his finest prints from several of his most important tomes, including Die Radiolarien, Monographie der Medusen, Die Kalkschwämme, and Kunstformen der Natur. At a time when biodiversity is increasingly threatened by human activities, the book is at once a visual masterwork, an underwater exploration, and a vivid reminder of the precious variety of life.
Gli autori
Julia Voss gained her doctorate with a thesis on visual representations of Darwinian evolution theory. Until 2017, she was head of the art department of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and deputy head of the features section. Voss is an honorary professor at Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, and her research focusses on the history of abstraction, restitution and provenance, and the connections between evolutionary theory and culture.
Rainer Willmann è professore di zoologia all’Università di Gottinga, direttore del suo museo di zoologia e co-fondatore del suo centro di ricerca per la biodiversità e l’ecologia. Specialista di filogenesi ed evoluzione, è ricercatore nel settore della biodiversità e della sua storia.
The Art and Science of Ernst Haeckel. 40th Ed.
Copertina rigida, 16.4 x 22.4 cm, 1.13 kg, 512 pagineISBN 978-3-8365-8427-2
Edizione: FranceseISBN 978-3-8365-8428-9
Edizione: Inglese5