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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... important. Science and art have diverged. As science became more successful in its quest to explain the seen by unseen laws of Nature, so art became increasingly subjective, metaphorical, and divorced from realistic representation. It ...
... important. Science and art have diverged. As science became more successful in its quest to explain the seen by unseen laws of Nature, so art became increasingly subjective, metaphorical, and divorced from realistic representation. It ...
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... important', to 'It's true and it's important, but it's not new—we knew it all along.' UNPOPULAR WISDOM We are inveterate spectators. Large fractions of our lives are spent watching people acting, competing, working, performing, or just ...
... important', to 'It's true and it's important, but it's not new—we knew it all along.' UNPOPULAR WISDOM We are inveterate spectators. Large fractions of our lives are spent watching people acting, competing, working, performing, or just ...
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... important that, for all practical purposes, they are unalterable; others are more malleable, and can be partially overwritten, or totally reprogrammed, by experience: they appear as defaults only when cultural inuences, or other learned ...
... important that, for all practical purposes, they are unalterable; others are more malleable, and can be partially overwritten, or totally reprogrammed, by experience: they appear as defaults only when cultural inuences, or other learned ...
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... important things about any form of living intelligence—wherever it might be in the Universe. To unravel all these strands is an impossible task. Our aims in this book are more modest. We are going to look at some of the unexpected ways ...
... important things about any form of living intelligence—wherever it might be in the Universe. To unravel all these strands is an impossible task. Our aims in this book are more modest. We are going to look at some of the unexpected ways ...
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... importance of the vantage-point of the spectator was recognized in art before it was even raised in science. Scientists liked to see themselves as bird-watchers cosseted in a perfect hide. When confronted by the impact of their ...
... importance of the vantage-point of the spectator was recognized in art before it was even raised in science. Scientists liked to see themselves as bird-watchers cosseted in a perfect hide. When confronted by the impact of their ...
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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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