Ape to Apollo - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ape to Apollo write by David Bindman. This book was released on 2002. Ape to Apollo available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ape to Apollo is the first book to follow the development in the eighteenth century of the idea of race as it shaped and was shaped by the idea of aesthetics. Twelve full-color illustrations and sixty-five black-and-white illustrations from publications and artists of the day allow the reader to see eighteenth-century concepts of race translated into images. Human "varieties" are marked in such illustrations by exaggerated differences, with emphases on variations from the European ideal and on the characteristics that allegedly divided the races. In surveying the idea of human variety before "race" was introduced by Linneaus as a scientific category, David Bindman considers the work of many German and British thinkers, including J. F. Blumenbach, Georg and Johann Reinhold Forster, and Immanuel Kant, as well as Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon and Pieter Camper. Bindman believes that such representations, and the theories that supported them, helped give rise to the racism of the modern era. He writes, "It may be objected that some features of modern racism predate the Enlightenment, and already existed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; certainly there was deep prejudice, but that, I would argue, is not the same as racism, which must have as a foundation a theory of race to justify the exercise of prejudice."
Monkey to Man
Monkey to Man - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Monkey to Man write by Gowan Dawson. This book was released on 2024-02-27. Monkey to Man available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first book to examine the iconic depiction of evolution, the “march of progress,” and its role in shaping our understanding of how humans evolved We are all familiar with the “march of progress,” the representation of evolution that depicts a series of apelike creatures becoming progressively taller and more erect before finally reaching the upright human form. Its emphasis on linear progress has had a decisive impact on public understanding of evolution, yet the image contradicts modern scientific conceptions of evolution as complex and branching. This book is the first to examine the origins and history of this ubiquitous and hugely consequential illustration. In a story spanning more than a century, from Victorian Britain to America in the Space Age, Gowan Dawson traces the interconnected histories of the two most important versions of the image: the frontispiece to Thomas Henry Huxley’s Evidence as to Man’s Place in Nature (1863) and “The Road to Homo Sapiens,” a fold-out illustration in the best-selling book Early Man (1965). Dawson explores how the recurring appearances of this image pointed to shifting scientific and public perspectives on human evolution, as well as indicated novel artistic approaches and advancements in technology.
Race and Aesthetics in the anthropology of Petrus Camper (1722-1789)
Race and Aesthetics in the anthropology of Petrus Camper (1722-1789) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Race and Aesthetics in the anthropology of Petrus Camper (1722-1789) write by Miriam Claude Meijer. This book was released on 1999-01-01. Race and Aesthetics in the anthropology of Petrus Camper (1722-1789) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. After the discovery of the anthropoid ape in Asia and in Africa, eighteenth-century Holland became the crossroads of Enlightenment debates about the human species. Material evidence about human diversity reached Petrus Camper, comparative anatomist in the Netherlands, who engaged, among many other interests, in menschkunde. Could only religious doctrine support the belief of human demarcation from animals? Camper resolved the challenges raised by overseas discoveries with his thesis of the facial angle, a theory which succeeding generations distorted and misused in order to justify slavery, racism, antisemitism, and genocide. Thanks to his abundant papers in Dutch archives, Camper's ideas are restored to their original state. Eighteenth-century issues differed from those of other centuries: Did orang-utans talk like humans, walk like humans; even rape humans? What was the skin pigmentation of Adam and Eve? Did the spectrum of human physiognomies around the globe reflect the Fall of Man, the Creator's bounty, or merely bizarre beauty practices? Why did the ideal beauty of the Greeks appear to be the reverse of the Hottentots? The book contains some 50 illustrations, including apes with hiking sticks or tea cups, metamorphoses of living forms, and Apollo or Venus icons which titillated the science of man.
Index to Fairy Tales, Myths, and Legends
Index to Fairy Tales, Myths, and Legends - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Index to Fairy Tales, Myths, and Legends write by Mary Huse Eastman. This book was released on 1926. Index to Fairy Tales, Myths, and Legends available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Apollo's Song
Apollo's Song - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Apollo's Song write by Osamu Tezuka. This book was released on 2014-12-17. Apollo's Song available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Apollo's Song follows the tragic journey of Shogo, a young man whose abusive childhood has instilled in him a loathing for love so profound he finds himself compelled to acts of violence when he is witness to any act of intimacy or affection whether by human or beast. His hate is such that the gods intervene, cursing Shogo to experience love throughout the ages ultimately to have it ripped from his heart every time. From the Nazi atrocities of World War II to a dystopian future of human cloning, Shogo loses his heart, in so doing, healing the psychological scars of his childhood hatred. Master storyteller Osamu Tezuka's Apollo's Song is a lyrical tour-de-force on the human spirit, the destruction of hate, and the triumph of love.
