D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's Generative Influences in Art, Design, and Architecture

Ellen K. Levy is an independent artist and scholar in New York, USA.Charissa N. Terranova is Associate Professor of Aesthetic Studies, University of Texas at Dallas, USA.

• List of PlatesList of FiguresList of ContributorsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsTimelineIntroduction, Ellen K. Levy (Artist and Independent Scholar, USA) and Charissa N. Terranova (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)1. Are All Fish the Same if You Stretch Them? The Victorian Tale of On Growth and Form, Stephen Wolfram (Wolfram Research, USA)2. Physics in Biology – Has D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson Been Vindicated? Evelyn Fox Keller (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)3. On the Beauty of the Metacarpal, Hadas A. Steiner (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA)4. “Drawn from structures living and dead” – Collections and Connections, Growing and Forming, Matthew Jarron (University of Dundee Museum Collections, Scotland)5. D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson and Dorothy Wrinch: A Friendship, 1918–1948, Marjorie Senechal (Smith College, USA)6. D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson’s Surrealism, Brandon Taylor (University of Southampton, UK and Oxford University, UK)7. Structures of Light as ‘An Ethnologist’s Jewels’: D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson, The Independent Group and Montage, Assimina Kaniari (Athens School of Fine Arts, Greece)8. Exhibition as Extended Organism: The Evolutionary Agency of Richard Hamilton’s Growth and Form, Charissa N. Terranova (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)9. The Invisible Motives of Growth and Form, Caroline O’Donnell (CODA, USA)10. Diagrams of Entropic Forces: New Growth and Form, Philip Beesley (University of Waterloo, Canada)11. Tracing Threads of the Living Organism, Ellen K. Levy (Artist and Independent Scholar, USA)12. The Growth and Form of ArtNano Innovations: Inspirations from D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson’s On Growth and Form, Todd Siler (Artist, USA)13. On Growth and Form and Lightweight Structures, Sarah Bonnemaison (Dalhousie University, Canada)14. D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson Going Forward Between Chance and Necessity, Philip Ball (Independent Scholar, UK)Image as Argument: D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson and Contemporary Scientific Discourse, Justine Kupferman (Kallyope, Inc., USA)Reflections on Influence, Carolee Schneemann (Artist, USA, d. 2019)D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson and Polycrystalline Pattern Formation, Bart Kahr (New York University, USA)Conversations with D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson, Ellen K. Levy (Artist and Independent Scholar, USA)The Vortex and D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson, Meredith Tromble (Artist and Independent Scholar, USA)Deployable and Other Structural Forms, Henry Petroski (Duke University, USA)Index

D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson’s Generative Influences in Art, Design, and Architecture offers a significant contribution in its explication of the interrelationships between art, architecture, design, and biology and in situating Thompson’s biological model within a broad cultural frame.