Includes a foreword by the English poet and writer Walter de la Mare, bibliography, index and 16 b/w plates including Chinese Jade and details of Chartres Cathedral carvings.
Section headings include: Scientific criteria in the communication of feeling by imaginative art; An approach to Beethoven's final music for string quartet; Ancient Chinese carvings in Jade, and their appeal to the modern Western mind; From Byzantine manuscripts and ivories to the Gothic sculpture of Chartres; After seeing the Russian Ballet 'Petrouchka’; Fantasy and a real world, in the poetry of Walter de la Mare; The Persian and Arab artist-mathematicians of medieval Bagdad; Greek, Moslem and Chinese design in the Mongol scientific instruments of A.D. 1279; Conflicts between the logical and the mystical mind; Leonardo da Vinci as Scientist in Art; The nature and evolution of Leonardo's scientific mind…
Author: Martin Johnson, with a foreword by Walter de la Mare
Title: Art and Scientific Thought
Publisher: Faber and Faber, London
Publication date: 1944 first edition
Language: English
Format: softcover
Pages: 192pp.
Images: illustrated in b/w
Condition: very good. no jacket as is usual
Stock Number: RB05721 254
Includes a foreword by the English poet and writer Walter de la Mare, bibliography, index and 16 b/w plates including Chinese Jade and details of Chartres Cathedral carvings.
Section headings include: Scientific criteria in the communication of feeling by imaginative art; An approach to Beethoven's final music for string quartet; Ancient Chinese carvings in Jade, and their appeal to the modern Western mind; From Byzantine manuscripts and ivories to the Gothic sculpture of Chartres; After seeing the Russian Ballet 'Petrouchka’; Fantasy and a real world, in the poetry of Walter de la Mare; The Persian and Arab artist-mathematicians of medieval Bagdad; Greek, Moslem and Chinese design in the Mongol scientific instruments of A.D. 1279; Conflicts between the logical and the mystical mind; Leonardo da Vinci as Scientist in Art; The nature and evolution of Leonardo's scientific mind…
Author: Martin Johnson, with a foreword by Walter de la Mare
Title: Art and Scientific Thought
Publisher: Faber and Faber, London
Publication date: 1944 first edition
Language: English
Format: softcover
Pages: 192pp.
Images: illustrated in b/w
Condition: very good. no jacket as is usual
Stock Number: RB05721 254
