false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180170218m/1006595.jpg 1006595 2 Martin Kemp's provocative essays on the interplay between art and science have been entertaining readers of <I>Nature, </I>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 together here 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.<br>The images under consideration cover Western art from the Renaissance to the present day, and the science ranges from abstract mathematics to the illustrative modes of natural history and medicine. Kemp skillfully discusses the <I>Mona Lisa </I>as well as horror films, Galileo's moon drawings and diagrams in modern physics, Renaissance pottery and logos on trucks, the invention of perspective, and contemporary masterpieces. <br>Rather than charting the mutual influence of art and science upon each other, these essays look to the deeper structures that find expression in art and science; they reveal the "structural intuitions" shared by artists and scientists when confronting the world. This volume contains all the pieces published in <I>Nature </I>under the banners of "Art and Science" and "Science and Image," together with some from Kemp's recent "Science and Culture" series. The essays are presented thematically rather than chronologically, arranged to stimulate critical ideas about the nature of the image at the intersection of art and science, now and in the past. 992721 2000 Visualizations: The Nature Book of Art and Science total:4|5:4| 4 20 6 0 0 0 false false Sun Sep 06 21:11:16 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 06 21:11:16 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Mar 06 10:06:55 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 06 10:06:55 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Wed Aug 20 10:13:43 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 20 10:13:43 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Wed Apr 30 21:52:51 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 08 21:21:57 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 30 21:52:51 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Sat Nov 10 09:05:44 -0800 2007 Sat Nov 10 09:05:44 -0800 2007 5 0 false false Sat May 26 02:03:39 -0700 2007 Sat May 26 02:03:39 -0700 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1006595