Art and scientific thought; historical studies towards a modern revision of their antagonism. / With a foreword by Walter De La Mare.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Martin, 1896-1983.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and science.

Art.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

200 pages : plates, diagrams ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia Univ. Press, 1949.

Contents:

pt. 1. Features of resemblance and of contrast between the arts and the sciences. 1. Introduction

2. Scientific criteria in the communication of feeling by imaginative art

3. The communication of measurement in modern physical science

pt. 2. Examples of imaginative stimulus through structure and symbolism. 4. Introduction

5. An approach to Beethoven's final music for string quartet

6. Ancient Chinese carvings in jade, and their appeal to the modern western mind

7. From Byzantine manuscripts and ivories to the Gothic sculpture of Chartres

8. After seeing the Russian Ballet 'Petrouchka'

9. Fantasy and a real world, in the poetry of Walter de la Mare.

pt. 3. Historical failure to maintain a balance between the scientific and the imaginative. 10. Introduction

11. The Persian and Arab artist-mathematicians of medieval Bagdad

12. Greek, Moslem and Chinese design in the Mongol scientific instruments of A.D. 1279

13. Conflicts between the logical and the mystical mind, from ancient Chinese to recent Europeans

14. Symbolism as a future clue to conciliation between science, religion and art

Part 4. Leonardo da Vinci as scientist in art: his fantastic drawings and the prototype of scientific uneasiness in an unscientific community

15. Introduction

16. The problem of Leonardo's imaginative drawings

17. The nature and evolution of Leonardo's scientific mind

18. Sources of fantasy in a scientific mind

19. Scientific reaction to irrational environment.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-196).

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Other Format:

Online version: Johnson, Martin, 1896- Art and scientific thought.

OCLC:

507261