Exploring the invisible : art, science, and the spiritual / Lynn Gamwell.

Author/creator Gamwell, Lynn, 1943-
Format Book
Publication InfoPrinceton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2002.
Description344 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Supplemental ContentPublisher description
Subjects

Contents Foreword: Science as the artist's muse / by 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 -- 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.
General note"Novartis."
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 330-332) and index.
LCCN 2002025106
ISBN0691089728 (cloth : alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks N72.S3 G36 2002 ✔ Available Place Hold