Ernst Haeckel, "Echinidea. — Igelsterne," Kunstformen der Natur (Leipzig and Vienna: Verlag des Bibliographischen Instituts, 1904)
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For both research purposes and aesthetic pleasure, Hilla Becher assembled a collection of illustrated books dedicated to scientific classification. None on the theme of biological order was more important to the artists’ development than Ernst Haeckel’s 1904 Kunstformen der Natur. The plate from a disbound volume presented here shows a typological comparison of sea urchins and sand dollars.
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