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Art & Science

Art & Science. Art & Science. Problem: connected or opposed? C.P. Snow, The Two Cultures (1959) Lecture: Origins ideas about connection/opposition Actual relations Art/Science Our perspective as students of science. 1. History terms “art” and “science”. Middle Ages: Art as science:

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Art & Science

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  1. Art & Science

  2. Art & Science Problem: connected or opposed? C.P. Snow, The Two Cultures (1959) Lecture: Origins ideas about connection/opposition Actual relations Art/Science Our perspective as students of science

  3. 1. History terms“art” and “science” Middle Ages: • Art as science: e.g. medieval universities: seven liberal arts • Art als skill: e.g. “mechanical arts”

  4. 1. History terms“art” and “science” Renaissance: • Artist-engineers: Albrecht DürerGiambattista della PortaLeonardo da Vinci

  5. Leonardo da Vinci

  6. 1. History terms“art” and “science” Early modern period (17th century): • still merged in thesis Svetlana Alpers • criticism Alpers • vanitas in science

  7. 1. History terms“art” and “science” Early modern period (17th century): • still merged in thesis Svetlana Alpers • criticism Alpers • vanitas in science

  8. 1. History terms“art” and “science” Romanticism (late 18th - 19th century) • Origins opposition Art vs. Science: • Science destroys beauty, meaning, value • Art displays beauty, meaning, value

  9. 1. History terms“art” and “science” Thomas Campbell, ‘To the Rainbow’ (1820): When Science from Creation’s face Enchantment’s veil withdraws, What lovely visions yield their place To cold material laws!

  10. 1. History terms“art” and “science” Romanticism (late 18th - 19th century) • Raymond Williams, Culture and Society (1958) • terms (industry, culture, etc.) change meaning • “art” becomes “fine art”

  11. 1. History terms“art” and “science” Modernism (20th century) • anti-romantic • avant-garde artists embrace science: • Italian futurists • Russian constructivists

  12. Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Futuristist Manifesto (1909):“We declare that the splendor of the world has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. A racing automobile with its bonnet adorned with great tubes like serpents with explosive breath ... a roaring motor car which seems to run on machine-gun fire, is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace.”

  13. 1. History terms“art” and “science” 20th century to our time: • Modernism + Romantic opposition • see e.g. C.P. Snow, The Two Cultures (1959)

  14. 1. History terms“art” and “science” 20th century to our time: • All positions summed up in The Challenge of Our Time: • Arthur Koestler • J.D. Bernal • C.H. Waddington • Michael Polanyi

  15. 2. Actual relations Art/Science • besides conceptions • also actual connections/cooperations artists and scientists • in both directions

  16. 2. Actual relations Art/Science science for art: • as subject matter • as model • as source of knowledge • as inspiration

  17. 2. Actual relations Art/Science science for art: • as subject matter • as model • as source of knowledge • as inspiration

  18. Jacques-Louis David, M. Lavoisier et son Épouse (1788)

  19. 2. Actual relations Art/Science science for art: • as subject matter • as model • as source of knowledge • as inspiration

  20. Panamarenko

  21. 2. Actual relations Art/Science science for art: • as subject matter • as model • as source of knowledge • as inspiration

  22. Claude Monet, Klaprozen bij Argenteuil (1873)

  23. 2. Actual relations Art/Science science for art: • as subject matter • as model • as source of knowledge • as inspiration

  24. 2. science & art Ernst Haeckel, Kunstformen der Natur (1899-1904)

  25. René Binet, Porte Monumentale, World Exposition, Paris (1900)

  26. 2. Actual relations Art/Science art for science: • for illustrations

  27. Henry Thomas de la Beche, Duria Antiquor (1830)

  28. 2. Actual relations Art/Science art for science: • illustrations as ‘virtual witnessing’ • potentially weak link – cf. Hevelius • transition to ‘mechanical objectivity’ (Daston & Galison, Objectivity (2007)) • gap art and science practices

  29. 3. Our perspective as students of science • difference between ideal picture of science and actual practice • practice: • no method but skills • no Logic of Scientific Discovery (Popper), but Art of Scientific Discovery (Polanyi) • no categoric difference

  30. 3. Our perspective as students of science art/science projects: • NWO Co-ops: http://www.nwo.nl/nwohome.nsf/pages/NWOA_6VZCHZ http://www.co-ops.nl/ • MoonzooM: http://www.co-ops.nl/site/co-ops/coops-agenda/item/88 • Discovery07: http://www.picnicnetwork.org/page/7263/en

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