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Hidden Harmony By Jack R. Leibowitz

Hidden Harmony by Jack R. Leibowitz


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Featuring examples of paintings and sculptures and complementary examples of physical concepts, this contemplative work helps us see art and physics as artists and physicists do.

Hidden Harmony Summary

Hidden Harmony: The Connected Worlds of Physics and Art by Jack R. Leibowitz

Most art and science books focus on the science of perspective or the psychology of perception. Hidden Harmony does not. Instead, the book addresses the surprising common ground between physics and art from a novel and personal perspective. Viewing the two disciplines as creative processes, J. R. Leibowitz supplements existing and original research with illustrations to demonstrate that physics and art share guiding aesthetics and compositional demands and to show how each speaks meaningfully to the other. Leibowitz widens our experience and understanding of both domains by exploring how concepts such as balance and re-balance, coherence and unity, and symmetry and broken symmetry affect and are affected by artistic vision and scientific principle. He reveals shared themes and understandings in each field and adroitly illustrates the parallels between the dabs of color and layers of images in a work of art and the particles of matter and packets of energy that compose the observable, physical world. Featuring examples of art images and complementary examples of physics concepts, this contemplative work helps us see art and physics as artists and physicists do.

Hidden Harmony Reviews

The first thing I noticed when I picked up Hidden Harmony was its excellent production quality and aesthetics... The next thing that attracted me to the book was Leibowitz's impeccable taste... He writes extremely well, conveying his convictions in an erudite manner totally devoid of snobbery. -- Eric J. Heller Physics Today 2009 An original perspective on the relation between physics and art. -- Sebastian de Haro and Thomas van Lier Found Physics 2009 The author's comments on art are as stimulating as his exposition of physical theories is clear. -- Alan Williams The Art Book 2009 This is a thoroughly thought-provoking, accessible read, which not only provides some interesting views on art but gives some very nice insights into the concepts underlying physics. -- Barry Kent Observatory Magazine 2009 This material undoubtedly resulted in an excellent classroom experience and if one were contemplating offering such an interdisciplinary course it might be a useful resource. -- Ralph Davis American Journal of Physics 2009

About Jack R. Leibowitz

J. R. Leibowitz is an emeritus professor of physics and former chairman of the art department at the Catholic University of America. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society.

Table of Contents

Preface
1. The Mind's Eye as Interpreter
2. What Is Saved and Why
3. What Is Broken and How
4. The Balacen of Shapes
5. Some Visual Elements in Art
6. Searching for Light
7. Einstein's Relativity and the Escape from Relativism
8. Form in Impressionism and Postimpressionism
9. Cubism and the Expanding Horizon
10. The Growing Circle of Understanding
Notes
Index

Additional information

GOR005587386
9780801888663
0801888662
Hidden Harmony: The Connected Worlds of Physics and Art by Jack R. Leibowitz
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Johns Hopkins University Press
20080924
160
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