Main entry:

Kemp, Martin.

Title & Author:

Visualizations : the nature book of art and science / Martin Kemp.

Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2000.

Description:

xii, 202 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Collection of essays originally published in "Art and science", "Science and image", and the "Science and culture" series in Nature magazine.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-195) and index.
Part 1 Microcosms -- Lisa's laws 12 -- Durer's diagnoses 14 -- Cycling the cosmos 16 -- Palissy's philosophical pots 18 -- Vincian velcro 20 -- Vesalius' veracity 22 -- Babes in bottles 24 -- Part 2 Spatial visions -- Basically Brunelleschian 28 -- Piero's perspective 30 -- Vermeer's vision 32 -- Saenredam's shapes 34 -- Kepler's cosmos 36 -- Cartesian contrivances 38 -- Maculate moons 40 -- Hooke's housefly 42 -- Part 3 Nature on the move -- Merian's metamorphoses 46 -- Sexy stamens and provocative pistils 48 -- Stubbs' seeing 50 -- Audubon in action 52 -- Wright's ruptions 54 -- Turner's trinity 56 -- Part 4 Graphic precisions -- Monge's maths; Hummel's highlights 60 -- Modelled moons 62 -- Lucid looking 64 -- Wheatstone's waves 66 -- Mendeleev's matrix or 'Telling tables' 68 -- Gray's greyness 70 -- Graphic gropings 72 -- Rontgen's rays 74 -- Boys' bubbles 76 -- Stilled splashes 78 -- Part 5 Man and beast -- Shelley's shocks 82 -- Slanted statistics 84 -- Fremiet's frenzy 86 -- Hyde's horrors 88 -- Haeckel's hierarchies 90 -- Akeley's Africa 92 -- Ernst's ego 94 -- Part 6 Space and time -- Boccioni's ballistics 98 -- Feynman's figurations 100 -- Dali's dimensions 102 -- Bill's bands 104 -- Abbott's absolutes 106 -- Merz's maths 108 -- Part 7 Making models -- Animal arts 112 -- Albers' abstracts 114 -- Gabo's geometry 116 -- Kendrew constructs; Geis gazes 118 -- Max's modelling 120 -- Visible viruses 122 -- Kroto and charisma 124 -- Julesz's joyfulness 126 -- Mammary models 128 -- Part 8 New worlds revealed -- Heezen's highlands 132 -- Dendrites from the deep 134 -- Turrell's tunnelling 136 -- Venus' voyeurs 138 -- Lane's landscapes 140 -- Part 9 Process and pattern -- Metzger's mission 144 -- Parker's pieces 146 -- Callan's canyons 148 -- Cementing relationships (by Ian Stewart) 150 -- Derges' designs 152 -- Onwin's holistics 154 -- De Vries' varieties 156 -- Hesse-Honegger's handwork 158 -- Goldsworthy's genera 160 -- Latham's life-forms 162 -- Attractive attractors 164 -- Part 10 People, places, and publications -- Icons of intellect 168 -- Laudable labs? 170 -- Noticing Nature 172.

Summary:

"Martin Kemp's provocative essays on the interplay between art and science have been entertaining readers of Nature, the world's leading journal for the announcement of scientific discoveries, since 1997. These short, illustrated, highly-regarded essays generally focus on one visual image from art or science and provide an evocative and erudite investigation into shared motifs in the two disciplines. Gathered here together with a delightfully rich introduction by the author, the essays take our understanding to an exciting new level as they transgress the traditional boundaries between art and science."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0198564767 (acid-free paper)
9780198564768 (acid-free paper)
0520223527 (hardcover ; acid-free paper)
9780520223523 (hardcover ; acid-free paper)

Subject:

Science and the arts.
Science history
Art history
Sciences et arts.
Wissenschaft
Visualisierung
Kunst
Natuurwetenschappen.
Gelijkenis.
Visualisatie.
Art and science
Science in art.
Compostition (Art)
Proportion (Art)
Space and time in art
Art Philosophy
Aesthetics

Holdings:

Location: Library main 243248
Call No.: BIB 173030
Status: Available