Analyzing Art and Aesthetics (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Goodyear, Anne Collins; Weitekamp, Margaret A.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This ninth volume of the Artefacts series explores how artists have responded to developments in science and technology, past and present. Rather than limiting the discussion to art alone, editors Anne Collins Goodyear and Margaret Weitekamp also asked contributors to consider aesthetics: the scholarly consideration of sensory responses to cultural objects. When considered as aesthetic objects, how do scientific instruments or technological innovations reflect and embody culturally grounded assessments about appearance, feel, and use? And when these objects become museum artifacts, what aesthetic factors affect their exhibition? Contributors found answers in the material objects themselves. This volume reconsiders how science, technology, art, and aesthetics impact one another.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Smithsonian
• Seitenzahl: 309
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781935623236
• Artikelnr.: 39950001

Autorenporträt

Anne Collins Goodyear and Margaret A. Weitekamp

Inhaltsangabe

Series Preface by Martin Collins
Foreword by G. Wayne Clough
Acknowledgments
Introduction
 
Models as Aesthetic Objects
Section Introduction
Chapter 1 Using Science to Parse the Body: Some Artful Methods for Learning
Medicine by Katherine Ott
Chapter 2 The Disappearing Model: Harvard’s Glass Flowers and the Perils of
Trompe l’Oeil by Ellery Foutch
Chapter 3 “A Track Across What Is Now a Desert”: A. H. Munsell’s Quest for
a System of Color by Erin McLeary
Chapter 4 Models: Assembled Realities in Architecture and Engineering by
Dirk Buhler
 
Aesthetics of Technology
Section Introduction
Chapter 5 Karsh: Image Maker:Bringing Artifacts to an Art Show by Bryan
Dewalt
Chapter 6 Softening the Orbiter:The Space Shuttle as Plaything and Icon by
Margaret A. Weitekamp
Chapter 7 The Kilmer Complex: Artificial-Tree Cellular Towers and Landscape
Aesthetics by Bernard Mergen
Chapter 8 Form Over Function? Technology, Aesthetics, and Identity at the
National Museum of Scotland by Alison Taubman
Chapter 9 Split + Splice: An Experiment in Scholarly Methodologyand
Exhibition Making by Martha Fleming
 
Artists Interpret Science and Technology
Section Introduction
Chapter 10 Mercurial Pigments and the Alchemy of John Singleton Copley’s
Watson and the Shark by David Bjelajac
Chapter 11 C. A. A. Dellschau: An Outsider Artist and the Dream of Flight
by Tom D. Crouch
Chapter 12 African Cultural Astronomy and the Arts: A Preliminary Enquiry
by Christine Mullen Kreamer
Chapter 13 The Mathematical Paintings of Crockett Johnson, 1965–1975: An
Amateur and His Sources by Peggy Aldrich Kidwell
Chapter 14 Art in the Context of a Science Institution: A Case Study of the
Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences by J. D. Talasek
Chapter 15 Retaking the Universe: Art and Appropriated Astronomical
Artifacts by Elizabeth A. Kessler
Chapter 16 The Medium as Message in Contemporary Portraiture by Anne
Collins Goodyear
 
Collaboration in Action: Three Perspectives on the Smithsonian Artist
Research Fellowship Program
Chapter 17 Contemporary Art Informed by Science: The Smithsonian Artist
Research Fellowship by Jane Milosch
Chapter 18 The Influence and Inspiration from Taking Part in the
Smithsonian’s Artist Research Fellowship Program by Shih Chieh Huang
Chapter 19 Light at the Museum by Lynne R. Parenti
About the Contributors
Index