Exploring the invisible : art, science, and the spiritual

Title
  1. Exploring the invisible : art, science, and the spiritual / Lynn Gamwell.
Published by
  1. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2002.
Author
  1. Gamwell, Lynn, 1943-

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Description
  1. 344 p. : ill. (some col.); 29 cm.
Subject
  1. Art and science
  2. Art, Abstract
  3. Spirituality in art
Contents
  1. 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.
Call number
  1. JQG 02-1740
Note
  1. "Novartis."
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 330-332) and index.
Author
  1. Gamwell, Lynn, 1943-
Title
  1. Exploring the invisible : art, science, and the spiritual / Lynn Gamwell.
Imprint
  1. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2002.
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 330-332) and index.
LCCN
  1. 2002025106
ISBN
  1. 0691089728 (cloth : alk. paper)
Research call number
  1. JQG 02-1740
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