Download or read book Modern Art and Scientific Thought written by John Adkins Richardson and published by Urbana : University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author argues that the ideational relationships between the arts and sciences that many critics and historians attest to are delusional. He proposes new and surprising theories that encompass Cubism and the logics of Russell, Hilbert, and Brouwer; Seurat and new notions of reality; the common ground upon which The Bauhaus, Expressionism, Nazism, and Mannheim's Sociology of Knowledge stand on; Cezanne and non-Euclidean geometries.
Download or read book German Art History and Scientific Thought written by MitchellB. Frank and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh contribution to the ongoing debate between Kunstwissenschaft (scientific study of art) and Kunstgeschichte (art history), this essay collection explores how German-speaking art historians of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century self-consciously generated a field of study. Prominent North American and European scholars provide new insights into how a mixing of diverse methodologies took place, in order to gain a more subtle and comprehensive understanding of how art history became institutionalized and legitimized in Germany. One common assumption about early art-historical writing in Germany is that it depended upon a simplistic and narrowly-defined formalism. This book helps to correct this stereotype by demonstrating the complexity of discussion surrounding formalist concerns, and by examining how German-speaking art historians borrowed, incorporated, stole, and made analogies with concepts from the sciences in formulating their methods. In focusing on the work of some of the well-known 'fathers' of the discipline - such as Alois Riegl and Heinrich W?lfflin - as well as on lesser-known figures, the essays in this volume provide illuminating, and sometimes surprising, treatments of art history's prior and understudied interactions with a wide range of scientific orientations, from psychology, sociology, and physiognomics to evolutionism and comparative anatomy.
Download or read book Imagery in Scientific Thought Creating 20th Century Physics written by MILLER and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2013-12-21 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Art and Scientific Thought written by Martin Johnson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Art and Scientific Thought: Historical Studies Towards a Modern Revision of Their Antagonism That, he most patiently reiterated, is not the concern of Science. With these talks in view, he refers to his Socratic questioner. But then! - Socrates was not only heretical but dangerous in the eyes of his enemies on account of a wisdom to which they were blind (as may be certain devotees either of the arts or of the sciences in respect to the main thesis of this book). And no one but a gentleman nonpareil could have been the subject of the Phaedo. His method indeed was to reveal how hazy was the knowledge and how vague were the sentiments of those whom he catechised, while being himself perfectly assured that he knew the right answers, which he thereupon elucidated. My own feeble and precarious situation was precisely the reverse of this. And especially, needless to say, in respect to the Muse called Urania. Like any other novice (and this book is by no means intended solely for the expert) I could lapse into a momentary daydream over photographs of the nebulae of Andromeda or of Coma Berenices; could even hazard a mere guess whether its myriads of suns in their assembly suggested the spiral or the concentric; could intelligently enquire whether any such spiral was in process of winding up or of unwinding; and could faintly realise the difficulty occasioned by the varying stellar distances in unimaginable light years for any rapt student considering them on earth. But little further. I had no objection, rather the reverse, to abiding the crucial questions, mathematical, metaphysical, thus involved, as too Dr. Johnson magnanimously abided my own little simplicities, though in a different sense! But here there is less reason even for modesty; much more for shame and reproof. And it is here that we approach one of the paramount intentions of this book. Nowadays there is little excuse for staying ignorant, though there is immeasurably more excuse than there used to be for woefully failing in any aspiration to become omniscient. There is still less for remaining unconcerned, for being inertly insistent on the practical, the materialistic, the prosaic, or for deliberately confining the mind in minute compartments of that astonishing ship called Human Destiny - compartments which, even if they have the merit of being watertight, can hardly avoid being also rather airless. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Science Art and Nature in Medieval and Modern Thought written by A. C. Crombie and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1990-07-01 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author sees the history of Western Science as the history of a vision and an argument, initiated by the ancient Greeks in their search for principles at once of nature and of argument itself. This scientific vision explored and controlled by argument, and the diversification of both vision and argument by scientific experience and by interaction with the wider contexts of intellectual culture, constitute the long history of European scientific thought. Underlying that development have been specific commitments to conceptions of nature and of science and its intellectual and moral assumptions, accompanied by a recurrent critique; their diversification has generated a series of different styles of scientific thinking and of making theoretical and practical decisions which the work describes.
Download or read book Art and Scientific Thought written by Martin Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Thematic Origins of Scientific Thought written by Gerald Holton and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1988-05-25 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The highly acclaimed first edition of this major work convincingly established Gerald Holton’s analysis of the ways scientific ideas evolve. His concept of “themata,” induced from case studies with special attention to the work of Einstein, has become one of the chief tools for understanding scientific progress. It is now one of the main approaches in the study of the initiation and acceptance of individual scientific insights. Three principal consequences of this perspective extend beyond the study of the history of science itself. It provides philosophers of science with the kind of raw material on which some of the best work in their field is based. It helps intellectual historians to redefine the place of modern science in contemporary culture by identifying influences on the scientific imagination. And it prompts educators to reexamine the conventional concepts of education in science. In this new edition, Holton has masterfully reshaped the contents and widened the coverage. Significant new material has been added, including a penetrating account of the advent of quantum physics in the United States, and a broad consideration of the integrity of science, as exemplified in the work of Niels Bohr. In addition, a revised introduction and a new postscript provide an updated perspective on the role of themata. The result of this thoroughgoing revision is an indispensable volume for scholars and students of scientific thought and intellectual history.
Download or read book Art and Scientific Thought written by Martin Johnson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Art and Scientific Thought: Historical Studies Towards a Modern Revision of Their Antagonism Victoria and Albert Museum photograph [descriptions of plates 1-4 on pp. 63-4. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Art and scientific thought written by Martin Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Art Physics written by Leonard Shlain and published by William Morrow Paperbacks. This book was released on 2007-02-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art interprets the visible world. Physics charts its unseen workings. The two realms seem completely opposed. But consider that both strive to reveal truths for which there are no words––with physicists using the language of mathematics and artists using visual images. In Art & Physics, Leonard Shlain tracks their breakthroughs side by side throughout history to reveal an astonishing correlation of visions. From the classical Greek sculptors to Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns, and from Aristotle to Einstein, artists have foreshadowed the discoveries of scientists, such as when Monet and Cezanne intuited the coming upheaval in physics that Einstein would initiate. In this lively and colorful narrative, Leonard Shlain explores how artistic breakthroughs could have prefigured the visionary insights of physicists on so many occasions throughout history. Provicative and original, Art & Physics is a seamless integration of the romance of art and the drama of science––and an exhilarating history of ideas.
Download or read book Modern Science and Modern Thought written by Samuel Laing and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Marx and Contemporary Scientific Thought written by International Council for Philosophy and Humanistic Studies and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Marx and Contemporary Scientific Thought".
Download or read book Reductionism in Art and Brain Science written by Eric R. Kandel and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are art and science separated by an unbridgeable divide? Can they find common ground? In this new book, neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel, whose remarkable scientific career and deep interest in art give him a unique perspective, demonstrates how science can inform the way we experience a work of art and seek to understand its meaning. Kandel illustrates how reductionism—the distillation of larger scientific or aesthetic concepts into smaller, more tractable components—has been used by scientists and artists alike to pursue their respective truths. He draws on his Nobel Prize-winning work revealing the neurobiological underpinnings of learning and memory in sea slugs to shed light on the complex workings of the mental processes of higher animals. In Reductionism in Art and Brain Science, Kandel shows how this radically reductionist approach, applied to the most complex puzzle of our time—the brain—has been employed by modern artists who distill their subjective world into color, form, and light. Kandel demonstrates through bottom-up sensory and top-down cognitive functions how science can explore the complexities of human perception and help us to perceive, appreciate, and understand great works of art. At the heart of the book is an elegant elucidation of the contribution of reductionism to the evolution of modern art and its role in a monumental shift in artistic perspective. Reductionism steered the transition from figurative art to the first explorations of abstract art reflected in the works of Turner, Monet, Kandinsky, Schoenberg, and Mondrian. Kandel explains how, in the postwar era, Pollock, de Kooning, Rothko, Louis, Turrell, and Flavin used a reductionist approach to arrive at their abstract expressionism and how Katz, Warhol, Close, and Sandback built upon the advances of the New York School to reimagine figurative and minimal art. Featuring captivating drawings of the brain alongside full-color reproductions of modern art masterpieces, this book draws out the common concerns of science and art and how they illuminate each other.
Download or read book The Shock of Recognition written by Lewis Pyenson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Shock of Recognition, Lewis Pyenson examines art and science together to shed new light on common motifs in Picasso’s and Einstein’s education, in European material culture, and in the intellectual life of one nation-state, Argentina.
Download or read book Art and Scientific Thought written by Martin Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Art and Scientific Thought Historical Studies Towards a Modern Revision of Their Antagonis written by M. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
