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Hidden Harmony:

The Connected Worlds of Physics and Art
  • ISBN-13: 9780801888663
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Jack R. Leibowitz
  • Price: AUD $69.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 13/09/2008
  • Format: Hardback (229.00mm X 178.00mm) 160 pages Weight: 522g
  • Categories: Physics [PH]
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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. Leibowitz 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 dabs of color and layers of images in a work of art and the particles of matter and packets of energy that compose the observable, physical world. Featuring examples of art images and complementary examples of physics concepts, this contemplative work helps us see art and physics as artists and physicists do.

Preface1. The Mind's Eye as Interpreter2. What Is Saved and Why3. What Is Broken and How4. The Balacen of Shapes5. Some Visual Elements in Art6. Searching for Light7. Einstein's Relativity and the Escape from Relativism8. Form in Impressionism and Postimpressionism9. Cubism and the Expanding Horizon10. The Growing Circle of UnderstandingNotesIndex

""This material undoubtedly resulted in an excellent classroom experience and if one were contemplating offering such an interdisciplinary course it might be a useful resource.""

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