Description: Behind Appearance: A Study of the Relations Between Painting and the Natural Sciences in This Century by C.H. Waddington Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1970. First American Edition. Blue-gray cloth hardcover closed tear rear inner edge inside rear cover else good + in dust jacket with light general wear else good fully intact; 256 pp., 150 BW illus., 70 tipped-in color plates."Examines the art-science relationship at several levels that can be divided between the conscious connections made by painters who followed the development of twentieth-century physics and the unconscious *(or natural) reflections in the work of artists of the new scientific description and schematization of nature (the most direct manifestation of this is the almost uncanny similarity between certain paintings and photographs of the micro-world that were achieved at the same time). Also examined are those artists working from the opposite direction: those who reproduce the exact surface appearance of man-made technological objects (like the Pop painters) rather than probe beneath the surface of nature, and as well those who produce 'plans' for pseudo machines. In addition, the book presents a comparison of the self-conceptions of artists and scientists, and their professional attitudes toward their work." (dj).
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Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: Great Britain; Cambridge, Massachusetts
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket, Illustrated
Author: C.H. Waddington
Publisher: The MIT Press
Topic: Art History & Criticism
Subject: Art & Photography
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1970
