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The shock of recognition : motifs of modern art and science
- Title
- The shock of recognition : motifs of modern art and science / by Lewis Pyenson.
- Author
- Pyenson, Lewis
- Publication
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]
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Details
- Description
- xvi, 650 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 25 cm.
- Summary
- "In The Shock of Recognition, Lewis Pyenson uses a method called Historical Complementarity to identify the motif of non-figurative abstraction in modern art and science. He identifies the motif in Picasso's and Einstein's educational environments. He shows how this motif in domestic furnishing and in urban lighting set the stage for Picasso's and Einstein's professional success before 1914. He applies his method to intellectual life in Argentina, using it to address that nation's focus on an inventory of the natural world until the 1940s, its adoption of non-figurative art and nuclear physics in the middle of the twentieth century, and attention to landscape painting and the wonder of nature at the end of the century"--
- Series Statement
- Nuncius series : studies and sources in the material and visual history of science ; volume 5
- Uniform Title
- Nuncius series ; v. 5.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Historial complementarity -- Ut pictura mathesis : vision and perspective in Picasso's and Einstein's education -- Inside/Outside : abstraction in domestic décor and public experience -- Nation : horizons of artistic and scientific culture in Argentina.
- Call Number
- JQE 22-245
- ISBN
- 9789004325722
- 9004325727
- LCCN
- 2020028847
- OCLC
- 1161997675
- Author
- Pyenson, Lewis, author.
- Title
- The shock of recognition : motifs of modern art and science / by Lewis Pyenson.
- Publisher
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Nuncius series : studies and sources in the material and visual history of science ; volume 5Nuncius series ; v. 5.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Pyenson, Lewis. Shock of recognition Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021] 9789004325739 (DLC) 2020028848
- Research Call Number
- JQE 22-245