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O R I G I N
THE EVOLUTION OF CROW, INNERSPACE, SPECIES ICONS
Main and Corridor Galleries
October 14, 2009 - January 29, 2010
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ORIGIN celebrates the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species and the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin.
Not unlike Darwin’s famous voyage aboard the HMS Beagle (1831 – 1836), the exhibition brings together people of diverse disciplines and presents connections between poets, scientists, scholars, thinkers and visual artists in dialogue with one another. The origin and immutable evolution of their ideas, research and creations stem from passionate and novel exploration, interpretation, translation and collaboration.
Alan Turnbull & Tara Bergin, Nancy Lowe and Michael Oliveri are conducting courageous inquiry in art, literature and science; illuminating observations, supporting hypotheses, disturbing assumptions and shifting contexts. Just as Darwin undoubtedly altered the way people looked at the world and challenged conventional thinking, we invite you to consider the remarkable points of view in ORIGIN. |
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Schatten Gallery and the Robert W. Woodruff Library are delighted to exhibit the four great works of Charles Darwin as the centerpiece to ORIGIN:
On the Origin of Species
The Descent of Man
The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals
Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventures and Beagle (The Voyage of the Beagle)
We acknowledge the kindness and generosity of Emory alumnus and rare book collector, Stuart Rose 76B, who made these books available to us for the exhibition.
The animal, insect and plant specimens on exhibit are on loan from the Fernbank Science Center. www.fernbank.edu
The bone specimens are on loan from Agnes Scott College www.agnesscott.edu. We are grateful to both institutions for their generosity and collaboration on this exhibition.
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“It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent on each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us. These laws, taken in the largest sense, being Growth with Reproduction; Inheritance which is almost implied by reproduction; Variability from the indirect and direct action of the external conditions of life, and from use and disuse; a Ratio of Increase so high as to lead to a Struggle for Life; and as a consequence to Natural Selection, entailing Divergence of Character and the Extinction of less-improved forms. Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
– Charles Darwin |
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November 3, 2009
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