The Shock of Recognition : Motifs of Modern Art and Science.

Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Figures and Tables -- Introduction -- 1 The Origin of the Book -- 2 The Plan of the Book -- 3 Terms of Analysis -- 4 Modernity and Abstraction -- 5 Neo-Idealism and Worldview -- 6 The Years around 1900 -- 7 Motifs and the Shock of Recognition -- 8 Hope and Gratitude -- Part 1 Historical Complementarity -- Chapter 1 Complementary History -- 1 The Intrinsic Past of Art and Science -- 2 Historical Complementarity Introduced -- 3 Penetrating Deeper into Culture -- 4 The Method of Historical Complementarity -- 5 Up from the Bottom -- 6 The Common Ground of Intellectual Life -- Chapter 2 How Moderns Understood Art and Science -- 1 The Ideal and Abstract Consensus -- 2 Art and Science as Vexatious Twins -- 3 Neo-idealists and Symbols -- 4 Leonardo as a Modern Icon -- Part 2 Ut pictura mathesis: Vision and Perspective in Picasso's and Einstein's Education -- Chapter 3 A New Look at Picasso and Einstein -- Chapter 4 Picasso -- 1 Figuring It Out -- 2 A Coruña: Art and Science in an Atlantic Palace -- 3 High Art and Design in Barcelona -- 3.1 The School of Drawing -- 3.2 Mathematics -- 3.3 Technology and Science -- 4 What Picasso Saw -- Chapter 5 Einstein -- 1 Young Einstein's Visualization -- 2 Images of Western Civilization -- 3 The Eye and the Hand -- 4 Surfaces and Their Projection -- 5 Intimations of Relativity -- Chapter 6 Picasso and Einstein in Common -- Part 3 Inside/Outside: Abstraction in Domestic Décor and Public Experience -- Chapter 7 An Intellectual Climate -- 1 Complementarity and Analogy -- 2 Off Center: Politics and Philosophy -- 3 Neo-idealism in Painting and Physics -- Chapter 8 Non-figurative Design in Rooms and on Streets -- 1 Decorating for the Interior Turn -- 2 Carpets -- 3 Wallpaper -- 4 Electrical Lighting.

5 Light and Shadows in the Bourgeois and Scientific Experience -- Chapter 9 Teaching and Displaying Abstract Style -- 1 Art and Science in Great Britain -- 2 Design in the Department of Science and Art -- 3 Gottfried Semper in London -- 4 Christopher Dresser as a Designer -- 5 Semper's and Dresser's Legacy -- 6 The Appeal of Abstraction -- Chapter 10 Mathematics, Art, and Apparitions in School and Gallery -- 1 Felix Klein's Models -- 2 Nineteenth-Century Plaster Casts -- 3 Klein's Intuition -- 4 L.E.J. Brouwer's Affinity with Felix Klein -- 5 Responses to and Varieties of Abstraction -- 6 Interface of Artists and Mathematicians -- 7 Klein and Picasso -- Chapter 11 Abstraction as Neo-idealist Virtue -- Part 4 Nation: Horizons of Artistic and Scientific Culture in Argentina -- Chapter 12 Complementarity and National Style -- Chapter 13 Landscape and the Hope of a Modern Nation -- 1 Córdoba la docta -- 2 Venerable and Venerated Learning -- 3 The Rise of the Research University -- 4 Printing, Publishing, and Illustrating -- 5 Painting Argentina -- 6 Non-figurative Abstraction Delayed -- Chapter 14 The Gallery in a Laboratory and a New Sense of Land and Sky -- 1 A Unique Collection of Art -- 2 Tandar and the Horizon Index -- 3 Language, Science, and Art -- 4 Scientists Address Art -- 5 Art into the New Millennium -- 5.1 The Great Instauration -- 5.2 Small Actors in a Large Drama: Luis Felipe Noé -- 5.3 Earth and Sky: Ernesto Pesce -- 6 Art and Science to Tame Our Time -- 7 The Auger Project: From the Laboratory to the Stars -- Chapter 15 The Wonder of the World -- Conclusion: Complementary Endeavors and Leading Motifs -- Books Cited -- Index of Names.

In The Shock of Recognition, Lewis Pyenson examines art and science together to shed new light on common motifs in Picasso's and Einstein's education, in European material culture, and in the intellectual life of one nation-state, Argentina.

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