Art and Scientific Thought : : Historical Studies Towards a Modern Revision of Their Antagonism / / Martin Johnson.
Four groups of short studies and discussions around comparing the arts and science, examples of imaginative stimulation in the arts, balancing the scientific and the imaginative, and Leonardo da Vinci as a scientist in art.
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1949] ©1949 |
Year of Publication: | 1949 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (216 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Foreword by Walter de la Mare
- Author’s Preface
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Introduction
- I. Features of Resemblance and of Contrast between the Arts and the Sciences
- II. Examples of Imaginative Stimulus through Structure and Symbolism
- III. Historical Failure to maintain a Balance between the Scientific and the Imaginative
- IV. Leonardo da Vinci as Scientist in Art: his fantastic Drawings and the Prototype of Scientific Uneasiness in an Unscientific Community
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index