Name: Exploring the Invisible: Art, Science, and the Spiritual - Revised and Expanded Edition
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Author: Neil Degrasse Tyson
ISBN: 9780691191058

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Exploring the Invisible: Art, Science, and the Spiritual - Revised and Expanded Edition

Type

Physical Book

Author

Lynn Gamwell

Preface by

Neil Degrasse Tyson

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Year

2020

Language

English

Pages

528

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

31.2 x 25.4 x 4.6 cm

Weight

3.36 kg.

ISBN13

9780691191058

Synopsis "Exploring the Invisible: Art, Science, and the Spiritual - Revised and Expanded Edition "

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 effects--radio waves, X-rays, and sound-waves. Gamwell shows how artists developed the pivotal style of modernism--abstract, non-objective art--to 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.

Neil Degrasse Tyson

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Neil deGrasse Tyson es un astrofísico, divulgador científico y autor estadounidense, nacido el 5 de octubre de 1958 en Nueva York. Desde joven mostró un gran interés por la astronomía, lo que lo llevó a estudiar Física en la Universidad de Harvard y luego a obtener un doctorado en Astrofísica en la Universidad de Columbia.

Tyson se ha destacado por su capacidad de comunicar la ciencia de manera clara, entretenida y accesible para el público general. Es director del Planetario Hayden en el Museo Americano de Historia Natural de Nueva York, donde ha trabajado para acercar la astronomía a personas de todas las edades.

Su fama creció internacionalmente gracias a sus apariciones en medios de comunicación, conferencias y programas de televisión. Fue el presentador de la serie Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014), una actualización de la serie original de Carl Sagan. A lo largo de su carrera, ha escrito varios libros de divulgación científica, entre ellos Astrophysics for People in a Hurry.

Tyson es conocido también por su estilo directo, su defensa del pensamiento crítico y su compromiso con la educación científica. Su trabajo ha influido en millones de personas, fomentando el interés por el universo y la ciencia en general.

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