Artforum, December 1st, 2006
VISIONS OF NATURE: THE ART AND SCIENCE OF ERNST HAECKEL
Famous Chiefly for hiS "recapitulation theory," in which ontogeny (development of form) is said to be linked to phylogeny (evolutionary descent), zoologist and philosopher Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) was also an artist of the first rank. This hefty volume brings together many of his watercolors and drawings of biological forms, especially microscopic flora and fauna. Haeckel's sparklingly detailed images animate these otherwiseunseen organisms, revealing personalities as vivid and recognizable as those found in his depictions of human face...
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