Seen/Unseen

Art, Science, and Intuition from Leonardo to the Hubble Telescope

Martin Kemp

360 pages, parution le 21/11/2006

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Résumé

Seen | Unseen is a deep, richly illustrated, and erudite analysis of the interconnections between science and the visual arts. Martin Kemp explores the responses of artists, scientists, and their instruments, to the world - ranging from early representations of perspective, to pinhole cameras, particle accelerators and the Hubble telescope.

From Leonardo, Durer, and the inventors of photography to contemporary sculptors, and from Galileo and Darwin to Stephen J. Gould, Kemp considers the way in which scientists and artists have perceived the world and responded to its patterns, and sees common 'structural intuitions' reflected in their work.

Readership: This book will appeal to anyone interested in the visual arts, in form, perspective and aesthetics, and the history of art, as well as science readers interested in perception and the origins of our aesthetic sense.

Sommaire

Journey into Space
- Looking into the box
- The persistent box
Lesser and Greater Worlds
- The art of analogy: Leonardo and Palissy
- The art of interaction: Robert Thornton and the Romantic era.
- Wholes and parts
Discerning Designs
- Natural geometries
- Growth and form
Out of our Hands
- The camera before photography
- 'The faithful record'
- Invisible worlds
- Looking Backwards and Forewords: a speculative conclusion.

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Oxford University Press
Auteur(s)	Martin Kemp
Parution	21/11/2006
Nb. de pages	360
Format	18 x 25
Couverture	Relié
Poids	935g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780199295722
ISBN13	978-0-19-929572-2