Entrée principale:

Johnson, Martin, 1896-1983, author.

Titre et auteur:

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

Publication:

New York, Columbia Univ. Press, 1949.

Description:

200 pages plates, diagrams 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-196).
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 -- pt 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.

Sujet:

Art and science.
Art.
Art et sciences.
Kunst.
Wetenschap.

Vedettes secondaires:

De la Mare, Walter, 1873-1956, writer of foreword.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 19358
Cote: PO11811; ID:87-B6559
Statut: Disponible