Biocentrism and Modernism / ed. by Oliver A.I. Botar and Isabel Wünsche

Includes bibliographical references and index

Defining Biocentrism / Oliver A. I. Botar -- Rereading Bioromanticism / Monika Wucher -- The Naming of Biomorphism / Jennifer Mundy -- On the Biology of the Inorganic: Crystallography and Discourses of Latent Life in the Art and Architectural Historiography of the Early 20th-Century / Spyros Papapetros -- Traces of Organicism in Gardening and Urban Planning Theories in Early Twentieth-Century Germany / David Haney and Elke Sohn -- Organic Visions and Biological Models in Russian Avant-Garde Art / Isabel Wünsche -- Biocentrism and Anarchy: Herbert Read's Modernism / Allan Antliff -- Organicism Among the Cubists: The Case of Raymond Duchamp-Villon / Mark Antliff -- Klee's Neo-Romanticism: The Wages of Scientific Curiosity / Sara Lynn Henry -- Kandinsky and Science: The Introduction of Biological Images in the Paris Period / Vivian Endicott Barnett -- Pollock's Dream of a Biocentric Art: The Challenge of His and Peter Blake's Ideal Museum / Elizabeth Langhorne