Biocentrism and Modernism

Examining the intersections between art and scientific approaches to the natural world, Biocentrism and Modernism reveals another side to Modernism's development. While historians have usually framed this movement as being mechanistic and "against" nature, the essays in this collection illuminate the role that nature-centric ideologies played in late-nineteenth to mid-twentieth-century Modernism. Looking at philosophy and application, this volume features case studies of artists such as Duchamp-Villon, Klee, Kandinsky, and Pollock.