| Description |
344 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 330-332) and index. |
| Contents |
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 siecle -- 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. |
| Subject |
Art and science.
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Spirituality in art.
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Art, Abstract.
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| ISBN |
0691089728 (alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
9780691089720 |
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UKM bA2V3119 |
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UKM bA263252 |
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