Grown but Not Made

In Grown But Not Made: British Modernist Sculpture and the New Biology, Juler [...] truly captures the exciting cultural crosspollination at work in 1930s Great Britain, connecting, for example, the extraordinarily talented creator and editor of the avant-garde journal Axis Myfanwy Piper, Neo-Constructivism, and the biologistic mindset cultivated in H. G. Wells and Julian Huxley's collaboratively written book of 1938, The Science of Life-a nexus of forces which materialized in the beautiful garden suburb of London that is Hampstead [...] Juler's book is all about loving science, at least in the popular realm, and its coexistence and mixing with art during the 1930s. His is what Bloom called a profound act of reading that is a kind of falling in love with a literary work. Charissa N. Terranova, Athenaeum Review, Issue 1 (Fall 2018) 'The sinuous organic forms in the sculpture of Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore and others are often tied to vague conceptions of Biology; however, few have embarked on the subject with the level of scienti?c speci?city that Edward Juler does in his book Grown But Not Made [...] Through the author's con?dent explanations of the scienti?c factions at play - something of a rarity in art historical accounts of bio-centricity - he weaves a comprehensive picture of the biological foundations that underpin the conceptual frameworks of artists and critics in the interwar period.' Rachel Stratton, Sculpture Journal, Vol. 27, No. 3 (2018) -- .