Exploring the Invisible
Art, Science, and the Spiritual - Revised and Expanded Edition
Exploring the Invisible shows how modern art expresses the first secular, scientific worldview in human history. Now fully revised and expanded, this richly illustrated book describes two hundred years of scientific discoveries that inspired French Impressionist painters and Art Nouveau architects, as well as Surrealists in Europe, Latin America, and Japan. Lynn Gamwell describes how the microscope and telescope expanded the artist's vision into realms unseen by the naked eye. In the nineteenth century, a strange and exciting world came into focus, one of microorganisms in a drop of water and spiral nebulas in the night sky. The world is also…
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Weitere Autoren: Tyson, Neil deGrasse (Vorb.)
- ISBN: 978-0-691-19105-8
- EAN: 9780691191058
- Produktnummer: 32590884
- Verlag: University Presses
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 528 S.
- Masse: H31.4 cm x B25.3 cm x D4.5 cm 3'382 g
- Abbildungen: 332 color illus. + 183 b/w illus.
- Gewicht: 3382
Über den Autor
Lynn Gamwell is a lecturer in the history of art, science, and mathematics at the School of Visual Arts in New York. She is the author of Mathematics and Art: A Cultural History (Princeton). Neil deGrasse Tyson is director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History and the host of the Emmy Award-winning documentary Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey.
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