Charissa N. Terranova is Margaret M. McDermott Distinguished Chair in Art and Aesthetic Studies and Professor of Art and Architectural History at the University of Texas at Dallas, USA

A brilliant transdisciplinary study, Terranova’s book invites us to explore the history of modernism in relation to systems thinking. Charting mutations of ideas in aesthetics, science, and politics, it shows how notions of complexity developed before the digital age, at the confluence of art and biology.

• List of Illustrations PrefaceChapter 1 Organicism Abounds: British Intellectual Culture in the 1930sChapter 2 Biology and the British Bauhaus: From the Laboratory to Modern DesignChapter 3 Romantic Genetics: Landscape Lived, Rendered, and Epigenetic Chapter 4 Exhibition as Extended Organism: Three Shows in 1951Chapter 5 The Eccentric Cybernetics of György Kepes and Organic Modernism Conclusion Teachback and the Heuristics of Organic Modernism Bibliography Index

Charissa N. Terranova is Margaret M. McDermott Distinguished Chair in Art and Aesthetic Studies and Professor of Art and Architectural History at the University of Texas at Dallas, USA

A brilliant transdisciplinary study, Terranova’s book invites us to explore the history of modernism in relation to systems thinking. Charting mutations of ideas in aesthetics, science, and politics, it shows how notions of complexity developed before the digital age, at the confluence of art and biology.

• List of Illustrations PrefaceChapter 1 Organicism Abounds: British Intellectual Culture in the 1930sChapter 2 Biology and the British Bauhaus: From the Laboratory to Modern DesignChapter 3 Romantic Genetics: Landscape Lived, Rendered, and Epigenetic Chapter 4 Exhibition as Extended Organism: Three Shows in 1951Chapter 5 The Eccentric Cybernetics of György Kepes and Organic Modernism Conclusion Teachback and the Heuristics of Organic Modernism Bibliography Index

Charissa N. Terranova is Margaret M. McDermott Distinguished Chair in Art and Aesthetic Studies and Professor of Art and Architectural History at the University of Texas at Dallas, USA

A brilliant transdisciplinary study, Terranova’s book invites us to explore the history of modernism in relation to systems thinking. Charting mutations of ideas in aesthetics, science, and politics, it shows how notions of complexity developed before the digital age, at the confluence of art and biology.

• List of Illustrations PrefaceChapter 1 Organicism Abounds: British Intellectual Culture in the 1930sChapter 2 Biology and the British Bauhaus: From the Laboratory to Modern DesignChapter 3 Romantic Genetics: Landscape Lived, Rendered, and Epigenetic Chapter 4 Exhibition as Extended Organism: Three Shows in 1951Chapter 5 The Eccentric Cybernetics of György Kepes and Organic Modernism Conclusion Teachback and the Heuristics of Organic Modernism Bibliography Index