Close Encounters of Art and Physics An Artist's View /

• Main Author: Pesce, Laura (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Physics.; Mathematical physics.; Mathematics.; Art education.; Popular Science in Physics.; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.; Mathematics in Art and Architecture.; Creativity and Arts Education.

Close Encounters of Art and Physics is a voyage in time through the abstract ideas harboured in the minds of humans, starting from the graffiti art of cave dwellers and extending to the street art of contemporary men and women. In seeking parallels with science, the author looks far back to the firs...

Table of Contents:

• Part I Parallels Between Art and Physics
• Rock Paintings: Primordial Graffiti
• A Sense of the Beauty of Forms
• Were the Dark Ages Really Dark?
• Rebirth!
• The Age of Reason: The Enlightenment
• Impressive Impressions
• What You See Is Not What You Get
• Is Reality Really Real?
• Abstraction: Pure Thought
• Timeless Time
• Does it Belong to the Elite?
• Part II Collaborations
• What Time Is It?
• A Longer History of Time
• Just Call Me Jim
• Quintessence: The Spirit of the World
• Resolving the Unresolved
• The Brain Is an Orchestra
• Let's Play Chess
• Are There Real Crystals in the Universe?
• Brain and Mind
• In Memory of Tom Kibble
• Conclusion
• Bibliography.