Exploring the invisible : art, science, and the spiritual
Entry/Object ID
N72.S3.G36
Description
This sumptuously illustrated book shows how directly, profoundly, and indisputably modern science has transformed modern art. It traces the evolution of abstract art through several waves, beginning with Romanticism.
Lexicon
Search Terms
art and science, art--abstract, art--modern, spirituality in art
Legacy Lexicon
Category
Book
Book Details
Author
Lynn Gamwell
Publisher
Princeton University
Place Published
City
Princeton, NJ
Date Published
2002
Call No.
N72.S3.G36
ISBN
691121125, 9780691121123
Notes
Length: 344
General Notes
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Contents
Note
Foreword: Science as the artist's muse / Neil deGrasse Tyson -- Introduction -- Art in pursuit of the absolute : romanticism -- Adopting a scientific worldview -- The French art of observation : a cool rejection of Darwin -- German and Russian art of the absolute : a warm embrace of Darwin -- Loving and loathing science at the fin de siècle -- Looking inward : art and the human mind -- Wordless music and abstract art -- The culmination of Newton's clockwork universe -- Einstein's space-time universe -- Abstract art with a cosmic perspective -- Surrealist science -- The atomic sublime -- The disunity of nature : postmodern art, science, and the spiritual.
