The Artful Universe ExpandedOUP Oxford, 2011 M03 10 - 336 páginas In The Artful Universe (OUP, 1995) John D. Barrow explored the close ties between our aesthetic appreciation and the basic nature of the Universe, challenging the commonly held view that our sense of beauty is entirely free and unfettered. It looked at some of the unexpected ways in which the structure of the Universe, its laws, its environments, and above all its underlying mathematical structure imprints itself on our thoughts, our aesthetic preferences, and our views about the nature of things. The exploration embraced topics such as perspective; the size of things and the origins of aesthetics; computer art (posing the question: is it art?); and the origins of our susceptibility to music. Life sales of the hardback totalled just over 25,000 copies. The study of the evolutionary and mathematical underpinnings of our aesthetic sense, and our understanding of the nature and scale of the universe has grown over the past decade, with developments in evolutionary psychology, and in cosmology. This paperback of the revised edition (OUP, 2005) contains eight new sections covering the recent discoveries of extrasolar planets, fashionable postmodernist rejection of science as uncovering objective reality, growing understanding of key ratios appearing in biological relationships, and studies of the underlying mathematical structure of a Pollock painting. |
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... -Pierre Boon, Geoff West, Jayanth Banavar, and Martin Kemp for the discussions and contributions that helped create what happened in between. John D. Barrow, Cambridge, August 2004 Contents 1. Tales of the unexpected 2. The impact of.
... -Pierre Boon, Geoff West, Jayanth Banavar, and Martin Kemp for the discussions and contributions that helped create what happened in between. John D. Barrow, Cambridge, August 2004 Contents 1. Tales of the unexpected 2. The impact of.
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... created a false dichotomy and are the two views of the world more intimately entwined than appears at first sight? One of our goals here is to illuminate the relationship between the sciences and the arts with a new perspective on our ...
... created a false dichotomy and are the two views of the world more intimately entwined than appears at first sight? One of our goals here is to illuminate the relationship between the sciences and the arts with a new perspective on our ...
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... creating a distant point (the 'vanishing-point') to which all lines of sight appear to converge. The effect is enhanced ... create accurate representations of objects in three-dimensional space. Piero della Francesca drew his inspiration ...
... creating a distant point (the 'vanishing-point') to which all lines of sight appear to converge. The effect is enhanced ... create accurate representations of objects in three-dimensional space. Piero della Francesca drew his inspiration ...
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... create a three-dimensional perspective on a two-dimensional surface, and joined sculptors in bringing the observer into a closer relationship with the things portrayed. But that relationship was still one of separation. The creation of ...
... create a three-dimensional perspective on a two-dimensional surface, and joined sculptors in bringing the observer into a closer relationship with the things portrayed. But that relationship was still one of separation. The creation of ...
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... create fixed patterns, origami ignores that separation between the image and the paper. The paper becomes part of the image, and is twisted and folded until it is the picture, not merely the surface on which it lies. Another deep ...
... create fixed patterns, origami ignores that separation between the image and the paper. The paper becomes part of the image, and is twisted and folded until it is the picture, not merely the surface on which it lies. Another deep ...
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branching | |
the evolution of cooperation | |
the art of landscape | |
the dilemma of computer | |
The heavens and the Earth | |
The natural history of noise | |
Alls well that ends well | |
Tales of the unexpected | |
the fabric of the world | |
Illustration acknowledgements | |
Index | |
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