Crossing over: Art and Science at Caltech, 1920-2020 - Hardcover

 
9781606069424: Crossing over: Art and Science at Caltech, 1920-2020
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 160606942X ISBN 13: 9781606069424
Verlag: Getty Publications, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

This book offers an exciting in-depth look at the intersection of art and science at the renowned California Institute of Technology.

Science is as much a visual practice as a textual or quantitative one. For centuries, scientists have used microscopes, telescopes, painting, illustration, printing, and photography to perceive nature and communicate what they see in it, often in collaboration with artists. In the twentieth century, scientists also came to view creativity as an essential resource and looked to art to foster it.

Crossing Over is an interdisciplinary publication that looks at one prominent university—the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena—as a site for scientific and artistic image production. Uncovering the rich pictorial record embedded in its Archives and Special Collections, a team of visual culture scholars examines Caltech through a series of tightly focused case studies. How, the authors ask, have science and engineering institutions like Caltech used scientific representation, art, and architecture to construct themselves and produce discovery and invention? This book reveals new facets of life and work at Caltech that will be illuminating even to those familiar with the school, showcasing views that informed—and were informed by—the vibrant visual culture of Southern California.

This volume is published to accompany an exhibition on view at the California Institute of Technology from September 27 to December 15, 2024.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Peter Sachs Collopy is university archivist and head of Archives and Special Collections at the California Institute of Technology.

Claudia Bohn-Spector is an independent curator.

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Verlag
Getty Publications
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
160606942X
ISBN 13 
9781606069424
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
318
Herausgeber
Collopy Peter Sachs, Bohn-Spector Claudia
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