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Expressions: From Darwin to Contemporary Arts

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Explore Charles Darwin’s observation of the expression of emotions, and their contemporary recordings in the arts.

The book accompanies the Natural History Museum exhibition, After Darwin: Contemporary Expressions.

ISBN: 9780565092429

Author: Edited by Bergit Arends

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Expressions: From Darwin to Contemporary Arts

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Bringing together newly commissioned poems, stories, artworks and essays, this book straddles the natural sciences, art and literature. It discusses questions of human-animal kinship and reflects on Darwin’s lesser-known masterwork, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals.

The book features the exhibition pieces with specially commissioned texts by Antonio Damasio, Aris Fioretos, Mark Haddon, Ruth Padel, Julia Voss and Bridget M. Waller.

116 pages, 23 x 16 cm, full-colour, paperback.

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