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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... are more malleable, and can be partially overwritten, or totally reprogrammed, by experience: they appear as defaults only when cultural inuences, or other learned responses, are absent. Some of those environmental universalities stretch.
... are more malleable, and can be partially overwritten, or totally reprogrammed, by experience: they appear as defaults only when cultural inuences, or other learned responses, are absent. Some of those environmental universalities stretch.
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John Barrow. learned responses, are absent. Some of those environmental universalities stretch farther than our home planet. They reect the regularities of solar systems, galaxies, and whole universes. They may tell us important things ...
John Barrow. learned responses, are absent. Some of those environmental universalities stretch farther than our home planet. They reect the regularities of solar systems, galaxies, and whole universes. They may tell us important things ...
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... responses to the world in which we live? Are they irreconcilable? Must we embrace either the subjective or the objective: the abacus or the rose? Or have we created a false dichotomy and are the two views of the world more intimately ...
... responses to the world in which we live? Are they irreconcilable? Must we embrace either the subjective or the objective: the abacus or the rose? Or have we created a false dichotomy and are the two views of the world more intimately ...
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... responses to modern computergenerated art, and will help us to appreciate what we require of man-made landscapes if they are to soothe or stimulate us. Our third excursion takes us to the stars: to unveil the ways in which the heavenly ...
... responses to modern computergenerated art, and will help us to appreciate what we require of man-made landscapes if they are to soothe or stimulate us. Our third excursion takes us to the stars: to unveil the ways in which the heavenly ...
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... response for the oriental artist. 2.2 Chiang Yee's Cows in Derwentwater from The Silent Traveller, a Chinese Artist in Lakeland, first published in London in 1937. 2.3 Pablo Picasso's Artist and Model, c. 1932, Cahiers d'Arts.
... response for the oriental artist. 2.2 Chiang Yee's Cows in Derwentwater from The Silent Traveller, a Chinese Artist in Lakeland, first published in London in 1937. 2.3 Pablo Picasso's Artist and Model, c. 1932, Cahiers d'Arts.
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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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