Art and scientific thought
Subtitle: historical studies towards a modern revision of their antagonism
By: With a foreword by Walter De La Mare
Publisher: Columbia Univ. Press
Published: 1949
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
Subjects: Wetenschap; Art and science; Art; Kunst
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-196).
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Features of resemblance and of contrast between the arts and the sciences. 1. Introduction; title: 2. Scientific criteria in the communication of feeling by imaginative art; title: 3. The communication of measurement in modern physical science; title: pt. 2. Examples of imaginative stimulus through structure and symbolism. 4. Introduction; title: 5. An approach to Beethoven's final music for string quartet; title: 6. Ancient Chinese carvings in jade, and their appeal to the modern western mind; title: 7. From Byzantine manuscripts and ivories to the Gothic sculpture of Chartres; title: 8. After seeing the Russian Ballet 'Petrouchka'; title: 9. Fantasy and a real world, in the poetry of Walter de la Mare.; title: pt. 3. Historical failure to maintain a balance between the scientific and the imaginative. 10. Introduction; title: 11. The Persian and Arab artist-mathematicians of medieval Bagdad; title: 12. Greek, Moslem and Chinese design in the Mongol scientific instruments of A.D. 1279; title: 13. Conflicts between the logical and the mystical mind, from ancient Chinese to recent Europeans; title: 14. Symbolism as a future clue to conciliation between science, religion and art; title: Part 4. Leonardo da Vinci as scientist in art: his fantastic drawings and the prototype of scientific uneasiness in an unscientific community; title: 15. Introduction; title: 16. The problem of Leonardo's imaginative drawings; title: 17. The nature and evolution of Leonardo's scientific mind; title: 18. Sources of fantasy in a scientific mind; title: 19. Scientific reaction to irrational environment.