The shock of recognition
Subtitle: motifs of modern art and science
By: by Lewis Pyenson
Series: Nuncius series : studies and sources in the material and visual history of science -- volume 5; Nuncius series -- v. 5.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 650
ISBN-13: 9789004325722; 9789004325739
Subjects: Art and science; Comparison (Philosophy); Intellectual life
Other titles: Motifs of modern art and science
Description: "In The Shock of Recognition, Lewis Pyenson uses a method called Historical Complementarity to identify the motif of non-figurative abstraction in modern art and science. He identifies the motif in Picasso's and Einstein's educational environments. He shows how this motif in domestic furnishing and in urban lighting set the stage for Picasso's and Einstein's professional success before 1914. He applies his method to intellectual life in Argentina, using it to address that nation's focus on an inventory of the natural world until the 1940s, its adoption of non-figurative art and nuclear physics in the middle of the twentieth century, and attention to landscape painting and the wonder of nature at the end of the century"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Historial complementarity; title: Ut pictura mathesis : vision and perspective in Picasso's and Einstein's education; title: Inside/Outside : abstraction in domestic décor and public experience; title: Nation : horizons of artistic and scientific culture in Argentina.