Deep affinities : art and science / Philip F. Palmedo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Palmedo, Philip F., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science and the arts.

Art and science.

Nature (Aesthetics).

Science--Aesthetics.

Science.

Physical Description:

192 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : Abbeville Press Publishers, [2020]

Summary:

Palmedo traces these instincts back to a very early time in human history-- demonstrating, for example, the level of abstract thinking required to create the stone tools and cave paintings of the Paleolithic-- and then forward, to the builders of the Gothic cathedrals, to Leonardo da Vinci and Isaac Newton, to Einstein and Picasso. Illustrated with more than 125 creations of the genus Homo-- from a flint hand ax chipped half a million years ago to the abstractions of Hilma af Klint and the James Webb Space Telescope-- Palmedo's text leaves us with a new appreciation of the instinct for beauty shared by artists and scientists alike.

Contents:

Preface

The "first artists"

The origins of art and science

Movement and music

Simplicity and abstraction

The circle and the sphere

The mathematics of nature

The artist and the scientist

The role of art in science

Conclusions

Appendix A: The dating game

Appendix B: The Fibonacci sequence and the Golden Ratio.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-188) and index.

ISBN:

0789213788

9780789213785

OCLC:

1143647629