Art Forms in Nature (Dover Pictorial Archive)

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Ernst Heinrich Haeckel (1834–1919) used to be renowned as one of the vital foremost early exponents of Darwinism. His work used to be credited with having caused the acceptance of Darwinism in Europe, and his popular studies ― preaching the continuity of all life, organic and inorganic, from prehistoric time to the present ― converted tens of thousands of readers in every single place the world. Today, despite the fact that no one is greatly interested in Haeckel the biologist-philosopher, his work is more and more prized for something he himself would probably have regarded as secondary. These are the remarkable plates with which his work used to be illustrated, particularly his famous Kunstformen.
The Kunstformen contains 100 beautiful lithographic plates which show a multitude of ordinary life forms: Radiolaria, Foraminifera, and other forms of microscopic life; jellyfishes, starfishes, calcareous sponges, star corals, barnacles, and other sea life; mosses, lichens, red algae, ferns, fungi, orchids, and other plants; and turtles, moths, spiders, bats, frogs, lizards, hummingbirds, and antelope. With many drawings on each and every plate, each and every carefully drawn from nature, the subtle details of nature’s art forms are easily compared and appreciated.
In addition to being marvelous renderings, these plates have long been noted for the bizarre emotional appeal that they’ve for most viewers, a premonition of surrealism with exotic organic life forms stretching back to their roots in the inorganic, and individual details drawn with awareness of subtle evolutionary changes and millennia-long developments. Artists, illustrators, and others will find them still powerful as one of the vital landmarks of applied art. 

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