Author: JOHNSON, MARTIN
Title: Art and Scientific Thought - Historical Studies Towards a Modern Revision of Their Antagonism
Description: London, Faber & Faber. 1946. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gilt title on black cloth boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is a small name to front pastedown and a few spots of light foxing to top and fore edges else very clean, tight and unmarked. A Very Good+ copy. Dustjacket has a little wear and is not price clipped. First published in 1944. Foreword by Walter de la Mare. 16 plates. A scientist who has been author of criticism in art and music as well as laboratory researches in atomic and astronomical physics, investigates in this book some differences and likenesses between the scientific and the artistic attitudes to life. He claims that these attitudes might shed their traditions of mutual antagonism, in discovering that there are impulses and instincts common to the aims and methods of imaginative art in many of its historical phases and work of the modern physical scientist. These methods he traces in fields as widely separeted as ancient Chinese decoration, medieval sculpture, European music, recent poetry and stagecraft. NOT EX LIB C3A. Very Good/Very Good.

Keywords: Art and Science, Chinese Jade Carvings, Leonardo Da Vinci, Colossi, Pythagoras


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