Leibowitz Hidden Harmony

The Connected Worlds of Physics and Art
Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4214-0703-6
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 0 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 229 mm

Most "art and science" books focus on the science of perspective or the psychology of perception. Hidden Harmony does not. Instead, the book addresses the surprising common ground between physics and art from a novel and personal perspective. Viewing the two disciplines as creative processes, J.R. Leibowitz supplements existing and original research with illustrations to demonstrate that physics and art share guiding aesthetics and compositional demands and to show how each speaks meaningfully to the other.

Hidden Harmony is the first serious look at what art and physics, as creative processes, have in common. Without assuming a background either in art or physics, the author widens our experience and understanding of both domains by exploring how concepts such as balance and re-balance, coherence and unity, and symmetry and broken symmetry affect and are affected by artistic vision and scientific principle. He reveals shared themes and understandings in each field and adroitly illustrates the parallels between the strategies guiding the dabs of color and layers of images in a work of art and those guiding the assembly of physical evidence into models of the physical world.

Featuring examples of paintings and sculptures and complementary examples of physical concepts, this contemplative work helps us see art and physics as artists and physicists do.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Leibowitz, Jack R.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Geschichte der Kunstwissenschaft und Kunstkritik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Naturwissenschaften, Technik, Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
1. The Mind's Eye as Interpreter
2. What Is Saved and Why
3. What Is Broken and How
4. The Balacen of Shapes
5. Some Visual Elements in Art
6. Searching for Light
7. Einstein's Relativity and the Escape from Relativism
8. Form in Impressionism and Postimpressionism
9. Cubism and the Expanding Horizon
10. The Growing Circle of Understanding
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Leibowitz, Jack R.
J. R. Leibowitz is an emeritus professor of physics and former chairman of the art department at the Catholic University of America. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society.