Darwin and Theories of Aesthetics and Cultural History

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Barbara Larson is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of West Florida. She specializes in intersections between art and science in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her publications include The Dark Side of Nature: Science Society and the Fantastic in the Work of Odilon Redon (2005) and The Art of Evolution: Darwin Darwinisms and Visual Culture (2009) which she co-edited. Sabine Flach is currently Professor of Contemporary Art and Art Theory at the School of Visual Arts Department of Fine Arts New York City. She specializes in modern and contemporary art aesthetics aesthesis and media of embodiment; habitus in habitat; the epistemology and aesthetics of visual thinking; and intersections between art art theory art history and cognitive neuro- life sciences and perceptual psychology. Her publications include: Habitus in Habitat I: Emotion and Motion (2010) Habitus in Habitat II: Other Sides of Cognition (2010) and Habitus in Habitat III: Synaesthesia and Kinaesthetics (2011) which she co-edited as well as Sensing Senses. Die WissensKunste der Avantgarden. Kunstlerische Theorie und Praxis zwischen Wahrnehmungswissenschaft Kunst und Medien. 1915-1930 (2013).