Seen and Unseen
The Visual Ideas Behind Art and Science
Description:... This is the story of how art preceded science in their shared quest to explain the world. Sometimes how we see the world is based, quite literally, on how we look at it. In this work, art historian Martin Kemp contends that many of our implicit assumptions about how the world works, which often make their way into scientific theories, stem from visual habits first developed in art. Starting off with a discussion of how the discovery of perspective fundamentally altered the visual culture of the Renaissance, Kemp produces a history of images of the natural order shared by art and science. This volume is for those who look to both art and science for new ways of understanding the world. This illustrated history of both art and science should provide a mini-history of visual innovation and scientific understanding from the Renaissance up to the present.
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