The bibliography (with many entries annotated) signals the readings of particular interest to Darwin, contemporary arts, and philosophy.
These pages will be added to over the project.
Have any suggestions for new material? Send to Dr Sara Barnes at s.barnes@eca.ac.uk

BOOKS AND CATALOGUES

Agamben, Giorgio; The Open: Man and Animal;
Stanford: Stanford University Press; 2004.
 

Albano, Caterina and Wallace, Marina; Gregor Mendel, The Genius of Genetics;
Brno: Mendel Museum;
 

Amigoni, David, and Wallace, Jeff (eds); Charles Darwin's Origin of Species: New Interdisciplinary Essays;
Manchester: Manchester University Press; 1985
 

Arends, Bergit and Thackera, Davina; Experiment: Conversations in Art and Science;
London: The Wellcome Trust; 2003.
A thought provoking and generously illustrated volume presenting some collaborative research projects between artists and scientists. Of particular note is 'Medusae,' a project by artist Dorothy Cross and zoologist Prof Tom Cross that included scientific research into the biomechanics of jellyfish and biographical research into the life and work of jellyfish breeder Maude Delap. By way of jellyfish location trips and the works of Haeckel and the Blaschkas, the Cross siblings produced an analytical and aesthetic dialogue of fascinating moving images 

Armstrong, Susan J. and Botzler, Richard G; The Animal Ethics Reader;
New York: Routledge; 2003
 

Atterton, P. and Calarco, M.; Animal Philosophy;
London: Continuum; 2004
 

Avery, Charles; The Plane of the Gods;
Edinburgh: doggerfisher and Turin: Galleria Sonia Rosso; 2006
 

Baker, Steve; Picturing the Beast: Animals, Identity, and Representation;
Chicago: University of Illinois; 2001 (1993)
 

Baker, Steve; The Postmodern Animal;
London: Reaktion; 2000
The representation of animals and use of live animals in contemporary art is explored by the author as a postmodern philosophical critique. Baker's analysis of Deleuze and Guattari's concept of 'becoming animal' is particularly useful and insightful for accounts of current creative practice. 

Barzun, Jacques; Darwin, Marx and Wagner;
New York: 1981 (1958)
 

Beer, Gillian; Darwin's Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Fiction;
Cambridge: Cambridge UP; 2000 (1983)
 

Beer, Gillian; Open Fields: Science in Cultural Encounter;
Oxford: Oxford UP; 1996
 

Bessire, Mark H.C; Cryptozoology. Out of Time, Place, Scale
Maine: Bates College Museum of Art; 2006
 

Bowler, Peter J.; Evolution: The History of an Idea;
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press; 1983
 

Bredekamp, Horst; Darwin's Korallen: die fruhen Evolutionsdiagramme und die Tradition der Naturgeschichte;
Berlin: Wagenbacht; 2005
 

Browne, Janet; Charles Darwin: The Power of Place;
London: Pimlico; 2003 (2002)
 

Browne, Janet; Charles Darwin: Voyaging;
London: Pimlico; 1995
Highly researched and authoritative first volume, covering his early life, influences and travels, in particular with The Beagle. Early chapters on Edinburgh influences, experiences and professional rivalries and a later chapter on the discoveries on the Galapagos useful, as well as Browne's assertion that the relationship with his brother Erasmus in under-appreciated. 

Burt, Jonathan; Animals in Film;
London: Reaktion; 2004
 

Carson, Anne; Autobiography of Red,
London: Vintage; 1999
 

Chalmers, Catherine; American Cockroach;
New York:Aperture; 2004
 

Chalmers, Catherine; Foodchain
New York: Aperture; 2000
 

Chancellor, John; Charles Darwin;
1973
Popular biography, rather general but with good illustrations and attention to grandfather Erasmus's views and poetry. Deals with cultural context widely too. 

Chubb, Shirley; The Thinking Path;
Shrewsbury: Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery; 2004
 

Coates, Marcus and Finlay, Alec; Journey to the Lower World;
Newcastle upon Tyne: Platform Projects, Morning Star, and London: Film London; 2005
 

Conversations Los Angeles Leiden: Nature and the City; Leiden:
Naturalis and Los Angeles: Natural History Museum Los Angeles; 2006
 

Corrin, Lisa Graziose; Kwon, Miwon; Bryson,Norman; Dion, Mark; Mark Dion;
London: Phaidon; 1997
 

Cross Dorothy; Dorothy Cross;
Dublin: Irish Museum of Modern Art; 2005
 

Darwin, Charles (edited by Gillian Beer); The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life;
Oxford: Oxford UP; 1996 (1859)
 

Darwin, Charles (edited by Janet Browne and Michael Neve); The Voyage of the Beagle;
London: Penguin; 1989 (1839)
 

Darwin, Charles; Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms;
Montana: Kessinger; 2004 (1881)
 

de Panafieu, Jean-Baptiste and Gries, Patrick; Evolution In Action: Natural History Through Spectacular Skeletons;
London: Thames & Hudson; 2007
 

Deleuze, Gilles and Guattari, Felix; A Thousand Plateaus;
London: Continuum; 2004 (1988)
 

Dennett, Daniel C; Darwin's Dangerous Idea. Evolution and the Meanings of Life;
London: Penguin; 1995
Dennett represents the strongest statement of Darwinian universalism, believing that his 19th century theory holds entirely true and needs little revision. The scope and detail is enormous (sometimes his diversions could have benefited from editing) and he, like Darwin, tackles objections head on. Draws heavily on the concept of disinterested occupation of ‘design space’ as evolution unfolds to no known end. 

Derges, Susan; Azure;
Edinburgh: Ingleby Gallery; 2006
 

Dion, Mark; Mark Dion. Natural History and Other Fictions;
Birmingham: Ikon Gallery, Hamburg: Kunstverein, Amsterdam: De Appel; 1997
 

Dupre John; Darwin's Legacy: What Evolution Means Today;
Oxford: Oxford UP; 2003
 

Evans, E.P; The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals;
New York: E.P. Dutton; 1906. Reprinted 1998 by The Lawbook Exchange
 

Fabian, A. C. (ed); Evolution. Society, Science and the Universe;
Cambridge: Cambridge UP; 1998
 

Finlay, Alec (ed) and Coates, Marcus; Journey to the Lower World
Newcastle upon Tyne: Platform Projects, London: Morning Star; 2005
 

Gooding, Mel; herman de vries: chance and change;
London: Thames & Hudson; 2006
 

Haenline, Carl (ed); Kiki Smith. All Creatures Great and Small;
Hannover: Kestner Gesellschaft; Zurich; New York: Scalo; 1999
 

Haraway, Donna; The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs People and Significant Otherness;
Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press; 2003
 

Haunch of Venison; Animals
London: Haunch of Venison; 2004
 

Hesse-Honegger, Cornelia; Heteroptera. The Beautiful and the Other or Images of a Mutating World;
Zurich: Scalo; 2002
 

Hodge, Jon and Radick, Gregory (eds);
Cambridge Companion to Darwin; Cambridge: Cambridge UP; 2003
 

Hodge, Jon; Origins and Species: A Study of the Historical Sources of Darwinism;
New York and London: Garland; 1991
 

Ingold, Tim; What is an Animal?
London: Routledge; 1994
 

Kaloff, Linda and Fitzgerald, Amy (eds); The Animals Reader;
Oxford: Berg, 2007
 

Kemp, Martin; The human animal in Western art and science;
Chicago: Chicago UP; 2007
 

Keynes, Randal; Darwin, His Daughter and Human Evolution (also published as Annie's Box);
New York: Riverhead; 2001
An affectionate study of how Darwin's losses, in particular of his 10-year-old daughter Annie, informed his view of evolution, disease and reproduction. Keynes is forensic in his attention to biographical detail, and also useful in connecting Darwin strongly to the philosophy of Hume, particularly around 'natural religion'. 

Keynes, Richard; Fossils, Finches and Fuegians. Charles Darwin's Adventures and Discoveries on The Beagle, 1832-1936;
London: Harper Collins; 2002
 

Knapp, Sandra; Footsteps in the Forest: Alfred Russell Wallace in the Amazon;
London: Natural History Museum; 1999
 

Levine, George; Darwin and the Novelists: Patterns of Science in Victorian Fiction;
Chicago: University of Chicago Press; 1992
 

Levine, George; Darwin Loves You: Natural Selection and the Re-enchantment of the World;
New Jersey: Princeton University Press; 2006
 

Lincoln, Roger & Rainbow, Phil; Specimens: The Spirit of Zoology;
London: Natural History Museum; 2003
 

Luhmann, Niklas; Art as a Social System;
Stanford: University of Stanford Press; 2000
A huge and ambitious tome, like all his works, which offer 'a clear demarcation of external system boundaries of different domains and comparability between different systems', in this case of art. Draws heavily on key terms such as evolution, autopoiesis, and self-organisation. Seeks to draw distinctions between art and non-art, and has many suggestive passages which assert a radical role for art, for example: 'In working together, form and medium generate what characterizes successful artworks, namely, improbable evidence'. 

Lyell, Charles (edited by James A. Secord); Principles of Geology;
London: Penguin, 1997 (1830-33)
 

Maturana, Humberto and Varela , Francisco; The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding;
Boston: Shambhala; 1992
 

Mayr, Ernst; What Evolution Is;
London: Phoenix; 2002
 

Michaels, Anne; Fugitive Pieces;
London: Bloomsbury; 1996
A beautifully conceived first novel by Canadian author, drawing in a narrative about a Greek geologist (Athos) travelling to US during Nazi-occupied period. Very episodic, poetic, and evocative on geological metaphor, memory and history, each enmeshed in the other. Suggested by a participant at Darwin Workshop 1, and subsequently read by a number of others, including artist Ilana Halperin. 

Midgley, Mary; Beast & Man.The Roots of Human Nature;
London: Methuen; 1979
Persuasive and erudite argument that few serious divisions exist between 'man' and 'animals', and attacks the many wrong-headed ethic conclusions that are drawn from this artificial split. Midgely celebrates types of evolutionary thinking, and man as one of many social animals, but employs a more 'horizontal' and caring approach, certainly not doctrinaire and authoritarian. 

Midgley, Mary; Evolution as a Religion;
London: Routledge; 2002 (1985)
Starting as an attack on the socio-biology of E O Wilson, moves on related distortions in evolutionary and Darwinian positions, evolution in the hands of some scientists 'goes far beyond its official function as a biological theory' and has become 'the creation myth of our age'. She continues her concern with promoting appropriate moral and ethics positions, and pays particular attention to unhelpful art/science divisions. 

Olly & Suzi; Arctic Desert Ocean Jungle
New York: Harry N Abrams; 2003
 

Parker, Andrew; In the Blink of an Eye - How vision kick-started the big bang of evolution;
New York: Simon & Schuster; 2003
 

Parker, Andrew; Seven Deadly Colours. The Genius of Nature's Palette and how it eluded Darwin;
New York: Simon & Schuster; 2005
 

Phillips, Adam; Darwin's Worms;
London: Faber & Faber; 1999
A wide-ranging meditation on death, redemption and nature by this readable psycho-therapist, author and broadcaster. Phillips view is that both Darwin and Freud were obsessed by the kinds of suffering that, in their view, no living creature can escape. The texts is divided into two separate discussions of each man, but with numerous cross-referrals thrown over. 

Philo, Chris and Wibert, Chris; Animal Spaces, Beastly Places: New Geographies of Human-Animal Relations;
London: Routledge; 2000
 

Robinson, Roger; 'Hardy and Darwin,' in Page, Norman (ed); Thomas Hardy: the Writer and his Background;
London: 1980
 

Rothels, Nigel (ed); Representing Animals;
Bloomington: Indiana University Press; 2002
 

Scott, Monique; Rethinking Evolution;
London: Routledge; 2008
 

Seamon, David and Zajonc, Arthur; Goethe's Way of Science. A Phenomenology of Nature;
New York: State University of New York Press; 1998
 

Sepala, Marketta; Vanha, Jari-Pekka and Weintraub, Linda; Animal, anima, animus;
Porin: Porin Art Museum; 1998
 

Shovlin, Jamie; Aggregate
Leicester: The City Gallery; Sway: Artsway; Edinburgh: Talbot Rice Gallery; Newcastle: Hatton Gallery; 2006
 

Singer, Peter; Darwinian Left: Politics, Evolution, and Cooperation;
New Haven and London: Yale University Press; 1999
 

Smith, Jonathan; Charles Darwin and Victorian Visual Culture
Cambridge: Cambridge U.P; 2006
 

Snaebjornsdottir, Bryndis and Wilson, Mark; Nanoq: Flat out and Bluesome. A cultural Life of Polar Bears;
London: Black Dog Publishing and Spike Island; 2006
 

Steeves, H. Peter (ed); Animal Others. On Ethics, Ontology and Animal Life
New York: SUNY; 1999
 

Stewart, Paul D; Galapagos. The Islands that Changed the World;
London: BBC; 2007
 

Stott, Rebecca; Darwin and the Barnacle;
London: Faber & Faber; 2003
Beginning with Robert Grant's meticulous studies of marine life on the shores of Edinburgh, Rebecca Stott traces Darwin's eight year pursual of the barnacle's biological significance for 'The Origin of Species.' Stott weaves Darwin's dedication to scientific curiosity with an engaging narrative on his family life and Victorian naturalism. 

Thompson, Nato; Becoming Animal;
Mass: Mass MoCA; 2005
 

Warner, Marina; Fantastic Metamorphoses;
Oxford: Oxford UP; 2002
 

Weinberg, Samantha; A Fish Caught in Time
London: Fourth Estate; 1999
 

Wolfe, Cary (ed); Zoontologies. The Question of the Animal
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press; 2003
 

Young, Robert M.; Darwin's Metaphor: Nature's Place in Victorian Culture;
Cambridge and New York: Cambridge UP; 1985
 

JOURNALS

Caranfa, Angelo; 'Art and Science: The Aesthetic Education of the Emotions and Reason.'
Originally published in Journal of Art and Design Education; vol. 20, no. 2, 2001; pp 151-60
Addressing the arts and sciences as the rational and the sensual, Angelo Caranfa presents the lives of Darwin and Paul Gauguin as exemplars of how aesthetic education is integral to teaching humanities. 

Gessert , George; 'A History of Art Involving dna.'
Originally published in Gerfried Stocker and Christine Schopf (eds); Ars Electronica; Wien and New York: Springer-Verlag; 1999
Artist, writer and plant breeder George Gessert provides a succinct overview of plant and animal domestication with particular reference to aesthetics. The essay raises the pertinent questions of eugenics, commodification and the value we place on living things. 

Granta 63; 'Beasts.'
London: Granta; 1998
This 1998 edition of the magazine for new writing features literary outputs on the theme of beasts and includes Paul Auster's 'Mr Bones, 'Hilary Mantel's 'Destroyed,' Gordon Grice's 'Bat Country,' and 'Tarantulas' by Sam Toperoff. 

Larson, Barbara; 'Evolution and Degeneration in the Early Work of Odilon Redon.'
Originally published in Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, Vol. 2, No. 2, Spring 2003
Barbara Larson places the hybrid 'monsters' of Odilon Redon's art in the context of fin-de-siecle debates around evolutionary theory. Detailing Redon's familiarity with the work of, among others, plant physiologist Armand Clavaud and evolutionary theorist Ernst Haeckel, Larson asserts that Redon was above all a Darwinist. See Articles page for a pdf of this essay.

Nochlin, Linda; 'The Darwin Effect: Introduction.'
Originally published in Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, Vol. 2, No. 2, Spring 2003
In this introduction to a special edition of the journal, art historian Linda Nochlin considers the nineteenth century milieu of evolutionary debate she describes as the Darwin Effect. First suggesting how this provided a rich millieu for artists, Nochlin then focuses upon how this was manifest in the representation of a species (the horse) and finally the relationship between evolution and gender theory. See Articles page for a pdf of this essay.

Pointon, Marcia; 'The Representation of Time in Painting: A study of William Dyce's Pegwell Bay: A Recollection of October 5th, 185.'
Originally published in Art History; vol. I, no. I, March 1978; pp 99-103
In this essay Marcia Pointon elegantly describes the painting by William Dyce painted in 1860 and referring to events of 1858 - dates that neatly sandwich the publication of The Origin of Species. The Victorian pre-occupation with the sciences - here geology and astronomy - are presented with reference to memory and teleology and a pictorial meditation on man’s place in nature and the universe. 

Pyne, Kathleen, 'On Women and Ambivalence in the Evolutionary Topos.'
Originally published in Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, Vol. 2, No. 2, Spring 2003
Set against an American backdrop of Darwin's evolutionary theory and it's interpretation as human progression by Herbert Spencer, Kathleen Pyne argues that the uncertainty of the opposing positions of the descent and ascent of man was played out in images of women. Here she considers the work of artist Thomas Dewing within the dual tenets of bodiliness and spirituality, femininity and masculinity. See Articles page for a pdf of this essay.

Sina Najafi, 'The Language of the Bees: An Interview with Hugh Raffles.'
Originally published in Cabinet, Issue 25, Spring 2007
Professor Hugh Raffles is currently writing The Illustrated Insectopedia (forthcoming, Pantheon). In this interview with Sina Najafi he discusses animal behaviour, the work of zoologist Karl von Frisch, Nazi ideology, and ethologist Konrad Lorenz and animal instinct. The discussion moves from questions of epistemology to ontology and closes with a brief excursion into animal suffering and humanism. See Articles page for a pdf of this essay.

Turner,Christopher; 'A Lot of Gall.'
Originally published in Cabinet, Issue 25, Spring 2007
Before he became a sex researcher, Alfred Kinsey was a zoologist and on his death bequeathed 7.5 million specimens to the Museum of Natural History in New York. Christopher Turner explores the drive of a man dedicated to taxonomy and the search for the origin of species of the gall wasp. See Articles page for a pdf of this essay.

Valentino Gerratana, 'Marx and Darwin.'
Originally published in New Left Review I/82, November-December 1973
What was the significance of Darwin's work in the thought of Marx and Engels? This is the question posed here by Valentino Gerratana who argues that their position on historical materialism and its relationship to the natural sciences preceded the publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859. Gerratana then develops the essay by way of Malthus and Huxley to include philosophy, social sciences and religion. See Articles page for a pdf of this essay.

Wertheim, Margaret, 'Figuring Life.'
Originally published in Cabinet, Issue 27, Fall 2007
Author Margaret Wertheim is founder and director of the L.A. based Institute for Figuring, dedicated to the aesthetic and poetic dimensions of science and mathematics. In this article, Wertheim discusses the Tree of Life, beginning with Darwin's sketch (the only illustration included in the 1859 edition of 'Origin of Species'), Ernst Haeckel's diagrams in 'General Morphology' (1886) and 'The Evolution of Man' (1879) and closing with Dr Norman Pace's pinwheel 'map of molecular machinary' founded in the chemistry of organisms. See Articles page for a pdf of this essay.

Winthrop-Young ,Geoffrey, 'On a Species of Origin: Luhmann's Darwin.'
Originally published in Configurations, 2003, 11:305-349
A comparison of Luhmann and Darwin, centred on Luhmann's 181-page chapter on 'Evolution' in Die Gesellschaft der Gesellschaft . The author tries to show how Luhmann, faced with the challenge of "combining" Darwinian theory with the theory of autopoiesis, provides contradictory assessments of the former, but also traces the parallels between the work 'complexity', variation, selection, difference, boundary-maintenance and origin play in the theories of both.