TY - BOOK ID - 79549295 TI - Exploring the invisible : art, science, and the spiritual AU - Gamwell, Lynn AU - Tyson, Neil, deGrasse PY - 2020 SN - 9780691191058 0691191050 PB - Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press DB - UniCat KW - Science KW - Art KW - art [fine art] KW - science [modern discipline] KW - Nature KW - anno 1800-1999 KW - anno 2000-2099 KW - art [discipline] KW - spiritualiteit UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:79549295 AB - How science changed the way artists understand reality Exploring the Invisible shows how modern art expresses the first secular scientific worldview in human history Now fully revised and expanded this richly illustrated book describes two hundred years of scientific discoveries that inspired French Impressionist painters and Art Nouveau architects as well as Surrealists in Europe Latin America and Japan Lynn Gamwell describes how the microscope and telescope expanded the artist's vision into realms unseen by the naked eye In the nineteenth century a strange and exciting world came into focus one of microorganisms in a drop of water and spiral nebulas in the night sky The world is also filled with forces that are truly unobservable known only indirectly by their effectsradio waves X-rays and soundwaves Gamwell shows how artists developed the pivotal style of modernismabstract nonobjective artto symbolize these unseen worlds Starting in Germany with Romanticism and ending with international contemporary art she traces the development of the visual arts as an expression of the scientific worldview in which humankind is part of a natural web of dynamic forces without predetermined purpose or meaning Gamwell reveals how artists give nature meaning by portraying it as mysterious dangerous or beautiful With a foreword by Neil deGrasse Tyson and a wealth of stunning images this expanded edition of Exploring the Invisible draws on the latest scholarship to provide a global perspective on the scientists and artists who explore life on Earth human consciousness and the space-time universe ER -