Every biology student knows Ernst Haeckel as the originator of the Biogenetic Law: ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny. Haeckel was a passionate student of the evolutionary shaping of biological forms, and Art Forms in Nature captures both his artistic sensibility and the scientific rigor he applied to all his studies. First published in 1904, Art Forms in Nature is a glorification of function and form, a demonstration of organic symmetry that has nothing--and everything--to do with nature as it actually exists. Each plate exhibits organisms carefully arranged and exquisitely detailed, a symbiosis between decorative sketches and descriptive observations of nature, as Olaf Breidbach states in his fascinating introductory text. The radiolarians, medusae, rotifers, bryozoans, and even frogs and turtles lovingly recreated here are gorgeous and self-explanatory, rendered in delicate, filigreed lines, and colored gently with muted green, delicate pink, and sepia. Art students will appreciate the designs found in nature--scientists will love the evolutionary statement of form inherent in the beauty. --Therese Littleton Kunstformen Der Natur
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هذا الكتاب أبهرني برسماته، وودت لو أنني اشتريت المجلد الكبير لأعمال هيكل كلها بدلا من هذا! ومعلومة اليوم أنه قبل أن يكون عالم أحياء تمنى أن يكون رسام طبيعة! ومشروعه كان يهدف إلى تقديم الفائدة العلمية بطريقة فنية راقية -- وأؤمن أنه حقق مراده! Kunstformen Der Natur Gorgeous prints, as virtually everyone agrees, but the first of the two introductory essays really fell flat. The second essay was moderately interesting. Too bad someone like Andrea Wulf didn't write an intro. Her chapter on Haeckel in her recent book, The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World, was what prompted me to buy Art Forms in Nature in the first place.
Read this book for the Reading Genres book club Eurobooks meeting, for which I decided to concentrate on European entomologists. I read five books, all told, for this meeting, which was undoubtedly overkill, but which I wholeheartedly enjoyed. Kunstformen Der Natur Somehow this didn’t wow me as I’d expected. The material is interesting re art, science, nature, and philosophy. Haeckel the zoologist is just as interesting as Haeckel the artist. I thought I’d adore the prints, but while I enjoyed them, I didn’t love them. The text accompaniment, appearing early in the book before the many pages of prints, is interesting.
I’m not sure why I didn’t feel amazed by this book. I do recommend it to artists, naturalists, scientists, and anyone interested in the natural world and in art. Maybe most would be more impressed than I was.
There is a long queue of people who have this on reserve at the library, and the copy I have is almost due, so I can’t keep perusing it. I have to return it. I’m not quite interested enough in it to borrow it again and spend more time with it. Kunstformen Der Natur GORGEOUS :: cannot be beat.
I heart Ernst Haeckel. Kunstformen Der Natur I bet H.R. Giger has a copy of this book. Old drawings of microbes, animals and such in a very distinct style. The microbes and some of the sea creatures have an especially alien look to them. There's at least one free digital version and if you insist on a paper copy get something like the Prestel edition so you get the color plates. Kunstformen Der Natur
Just once in a while, 5 stars aren't enough. This book is far more than amazing, it's stupendously, fantastically, magically wonderful (and that isn't hyperbole!) The book, as the introduction makes clear, is a work of scientific illustrations of primitive organisms. But the illustrations are other-worldly both in form and in the feeling they give: that rotifers, protozoans and medusae don't just inhabit scarcely-visible parts of our world, no they have their own world which we can barely glimpse into, as different and exotic as any science-fiction artwork.
These are disk jellyfish. Top right is Cassiopeia
If I wasn't at all interested in science, I would still want to own this book. Indeed, until I was forced to sell it (a good offer was made and, after all I am a bookseller, I can't hang on to my favourite items forever and I managed a year with this one) it was hidden on my private shelf where I could look at it almost every day. Kunstformen Der Natur I checked this book out at my local library, as it was included on a list of books that had inspired the late English fashion designer Alexander McQueen and I was curious. It is truly fabulous! There are 100 Color Plates to capture our imaginations through their colors, textures and designs, which exist in nature. Kunstformen Der Natur Originally published in Germany as Kunstformen der Natur, it is long out of copyright and available online in various formats. Some are found here, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunstfo...
That article includes a gallery of plates, mostly in color. All 100 plates included in the 1904 edition are reproduced here, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ku...
-- and are also copyright-free.
I read the Dover reprint listed here and for a time owned a copy of it, if memory serves. I no longer own it. Definitely worth browsing, and easier in paper of your library owns it (mine does not.) I have the ebook checked out. I don't know if it is any better than looking at the Wikipedia plates. Hoopla ebooks are a PITA to use! Kunstformen Der Natur Not so mind-blowing in these days of high-resolution microscopy, but still pretty amazing from a technical drawing viewpoint. And interesting aesthetically if you leaf through and the hydra and jellies and pinecones all sort of blur together as form rather than animals.
This Dover edition does not reproduce the text. Kunstformen Der Natur Lately, I have been indulging in scientific technical drawings more and more. I like the discipline in that long-forgotten way you feel when you're a hardcore fangirl screaming internally upon seeing something you like. It's that bad.
This was really great, but most importantly it will last -- for archiving, referencing, modifications, not just a book that'll sit on the shelf once perused -- all made easy with access to these lithographs.
P/S: Probably not as important, but I would have liked individual lithographs to have been labelled. Drawings are lumped into classes on single pages, so you'll get for example: one page of various starfishes, but without identification of each one.
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