Art Forms in Nature: Prints of Ernst Haeckel

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The spatial arrangement of organisms enhances the feeling of design, which is evocative of Art Nouveau style or some William Morris wallpapers.

His work was credited with having caused the acceptance of Darwinism in Europe, and his popular studies ― preaching the continuity of all life, organic and inorganic, from prehistoric time to the present ― converted tens of thousands of readers all over the world. Is copyright infringement the reason why the 1914 second edition was abridged from 100 to 30 plates? Purely speculative metaphysics, which were further developed from theories of apriorism established by Kant and which found its most radical advocate in Hegel, ultimately led to the utter rejection of empiricism and claimed that all knowledge is in fact acquired through pure reason, independent of all experience.The geometric shapes and natural forms, captured with exceptional precision in Ernst Haeckel's prints, still influence artists and designers to this day. P/S: Probably not as important, but I would have liked individual lithographs to have been labelled. He discovered, described and drew thousands of unknown species such as radiolaria and immortalised them in publications.

Haeckel recognized beauty in every aspect of nature, even the ones who could be perceived as scary or insignificant. Ernst Heinrich Haeckel (1834-1919) was renowned as one of the foremost early exponents of Darwinism. Kunstformen der Natur was influential in early 20th-century art, architecture, and design, bridging the gap between science and art. The Canvas and the Camera in Weimar Germany: A New Objectivity in Painting and Photography of the 1920s. Rene Binet, a pioneer of glass and iron constructions, Emile Galle, a renowned Art Nouveau designer, and the photographer Karl Blossfeld all make explicit reference to Haeckel in their work.Moreover, the firmly established perceptions of mathematics and physics, which Kant explained as synthetic a priori judgements, originated by means of the phyletic development of the faculty of judgement and may be traced back to continually recurring a posteriori experiences and conclusions based thereupon. I had just bought this 'on spec', it is a real find and a very reasonable cost given the quality of the paper and printing!

Every living cell has psychic properties, and the psychic life of multicellular organisms is the sum-total of the psychic functions of the cells of which they are composed. It’s unfortunate that he was really into eugenics and scientific racism (I read some of his ideas on both and all I could think was “yikes”: his ideas fueled some of what the nazi’s used, even though they later banned his works, and his ideas about anyone who wasn’t white were appalling) so I can only appreciate his art and his scientific importance (he coined biological terms like ecology, phylum, phylogeny, and Protista). Multitude of strangely beautiful natural forms: Radiolaria, Foraminifera, Ciliata, diatoms, calcareous sponges, Siphonophora, star corals, starfishes, Protozoa, flagellates, brown seaweed, jellyfishes, sea-lilies, moss animals, sea-urchins, glass sponges, leptomedusae, horny corals, trunkfishes, true sea slugs, anthomedusae horseshoe crabs, sea-cucumbers, octopuses, bats, orchids, sea wasps, seahorse, a dragonfish, a frogfish, much more.El libro tiene 100 ilustraciones de diferentes especies, cada una del tamaño de una hoja entera, En la parte inferior vienen numeradas y con el nombre de la especie que varían entre plantas, animales de mar, aves, algas, etc.