Darwin’s Portraits and the Creation of a Myth
Here are two portraits of Charles Darwin. The one on the left is a painting by John Collier made in 1883 as a copy of an original 1881 portrait. Collier is reported to have said of the copy that “as a likeness it is an improvement on the original”[*]. The image on the right is…
Maja Klevanski’s drawings give us cause to reflect on why we tend to see animals and faces even when there aren’t any there.
...nature is not a book 