Author: Renato Barilli
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773540997
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
How science and art have influenced each other throughout the ages.
The Science of Culture and the Phenomenology of Styles
Author: Renato Barilli
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773540997
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
How science and art have influenced each other throughout the ages.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773540997
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
How science and art have influenced each other throughout the ages.
Problemi attuali di scienza e di cultura
Author: Accademia nazionale dei Lincei
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1348
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1348
Book Description
Current Catalog
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
Book Description
Includes subject section, name section, and 1968-1970, technical reports.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
Book Description
Includes subject section, name section, and 1968-1970, technical reports.
The Secret of Secrets
Author: Steven J. Williams
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472113088
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
A compelling study of a "best-seller" from the Middle Ages
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472113088
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
A compelling study of a "best-seller" from the Middle Ages
Mathematics and Culture I
Author: Michele Emmer
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9783540017707
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
A fascinating and insightful collection of papers on the strong links between mathematics and culture. The contributions range from cinema and theatre directors to musicians, architects, historians, physicians, graphic designers and writers. The text highlights the cultural and formative character of mathematics, its educational value, and imaginative dimension. These articles are highly interesting, sometimes amusing, and make excellent starting points for researching the strong connection between scientific and literary culture.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9783540017707
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
A fascinating and insightful collection of papers on the strong links between mathematics and culture. The contributions range from cinema and theatre directors to musicians, architects, historians, physicians, graphic designers and writers. The text highlights the cultural and formative character of mathematics, its educational value, and imaginative dimension. These articles are highly interesting, sometimes amusing, and make excellent starting points for researching the strong connection between scientific and literary culture.
Dance, Human Rights, and Social Justice
Author: Naomi M. Jackson
Publisher: Editoriale Jaca Book
ISBN: 9780810861497
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
Dance, Human Rights, and Social Justice: Dignity in Motion presents a wide-ranging compilation of essays, spanning more than 15 countries. Organized in four parts, the articles examine the regulation and exploitation of dancers and dance activity by government and authoritative groups, including abusive treatment of dancers within the dance profession; choreography involving human rights as a central theme; the engagement of dance as a means of healing victims of human rights abuses; and national and local social/political movements in which dance plays a powerful role in helping people fight oppression. These groundbreaking papers--both detailed scholarship and riveting personal accounts--encompass a broad spectrum of issues, from slavery and the Holocaust to the Bosnian and Rwandan genocides to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; from First Amendment cases and the AIDS epidemic to discrimination resulting from age, gender, race, and disability. A range of academics, choreographers, dancers, and dance/movement therapists draw connections between refugee camp, courtroom, theater, rehearsal studio, and university classroom.
Publisher: Editoriale Jaca Book
ISBN: 9780810861497
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
Dance, Human Rights, and Social Justice: Dignity in Motion presents a wide-ranging compilation of essays, spanning more than 15 countries. Organized in four parts, the articles examine the regulation and exploitation of dancers and dance activity by government and authoritative groups, including abusive treatment of dancers within the dance profession; choreography involving human rights as a central theme; the engagement of dance as a means of healing victims of human rights abuses; and national and local social/political movements in which dance plays a powerful role in helping people fight oppression. These groundbreaking papers--both detailed scholarship and riveting personal accounts--encompass a broad spectrum of issues, from slavery and the Holocaust to the Bosnian and Rwandan genocides to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; from First Amendment cases and the AIDS epidemic to discrimination resulting from age, gender, race, and disability. A range of academics, choreographers, dancers, and dance/movement therapists draw connections between refugee camp, courtroom, theater, rehearsal studio, and university classroom.
"Scientia", rivista di scienza
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Volta
Author: Giuliano Pancaldi
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691188610
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Giuliano Pancaldi sets us within the cosmopolitan cultures of Enlightenment Europe to tell the story of Alessandro Volta--the brilliant man whose name is forever attached to electromotive force. Providing fascinating details, many previously unknown, Pancaldi depicts Volta as an inventor who used his international network of acquaintances to further his quest to harness the power of electricity. This is the story of a man who sought recognition as a natural philosopher and ended up with an invention that would make an everyday marvel of electric lighting. Examining the social and scientific contexts in which Volta operated--as well as Europe's reception of his most famous invention--Volta also offers a sustained inquiry into long-term features of science and technology as they developed in the early age of electricity. Pancaldi considers the voltaic cell, or battery, as a case study of Enlightenment notions and their consequences, consequences that would include the emergence of the "scientist" at the expense of the "natural philosopher." Throughout, Pancaldi highlights the complex intellectual, technological, and social ferment that ultimately led to our industrial societies. In so doing, he suggests that today's supporters and critics of Enlightenment values underestimate the diversity and contingency inherent in science and technology--and may be at odds needlessly. Both an absorbing biography and a study of scientific and technological creativity, this book offers new insights into the legacies of the Enlightenment while telling the remarkable story of the now-ubiquitous battery.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691188610
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Giuliano Pancaldi sets us within the cosmopolitan cultures of Enlightenment Europe to tell the story of Alessandro Volta--the brilliant man whose name is forever attached to electromotive force. Providing fascinating details, many previously unknown, Pancaldi depicts Volta as an inventor who used his international network of acquaintances to further his quest to harness the power of electricity. This is the story of a man who sought recognition as a natural philosopher and ended up with an invention that would make an everyday marvel of electric lighting. Examining the social and scientific contexts in which Volta operated--as well as Europe's reception of his most famous invention--Volta also offers a sustained inquiry into long-term features of science and technology as they developed in the early age of electricity. Pancaldi considers the voltaic cell, or battery, as a case study of Enlightenment notions and their consequences, consequences that would include the emergence of the "scientist" at the expense of the "natural philosopher." Throughout, Pancaldi highlights the complex intellectual, technological, and social ferment that ultimately led to our industrial societies. In so doing, he suggests that today's supporters and critics of Enlightenment values underestimate the diversity and contingency inherent in science and technology--and may be at odds needlessly. Both an absorbing biography and a study of scientific and technological creativity, this book offers new insights into the legacies of the Enlightenment while telling the remarkable story of the now-ubiquitous battery.
The Art of Religion
Author: Maarten Delbeke
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317044401
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Bernini and Pallavicino, the artist and the Jesuit cardinal, are closely related figures at the papal courts of Urban VIII and Alexander VII, at which Bernini was the principal artist. The analysis of Pallavicino's writings offers a new perspective on Bernini's art and artistry and allow us to understand the visual arts in papal Rome as a 'making manifest' of the fundamental truths of faith. Pallavicino's views on art and its effects differ fundamentally from the perspective developed in Bernini's biographies offering a perspective on the tension between artist and patron, work and message. In Pallavicino's writings the visual arts emerge as being intrinsically bound up with the very core of religion involving questions of idolatry, mimesis and illusionism that would prove central to the aesthetic debates of the eighteenth century.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317044401
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Bernini and Pallavicino, the artist and the Jesuit cardinal, are closely related figures at the papal courts of Urban VIII and Alexander VII, at which Bernini was the principal artist. The analysis of Pallavicino's writings offers a new perspective on Bernini's art and artistry and allow us to understand the visual arts in papal Rome as a 'making manifest' of the fundamental truths of faith. Pallavicino's views on art and its effects differ fundamentally from the perspective developed in Bernini's biographies offering a perspective on the tension between artist and patron, work and message. In Pallavicino's writings the visual arts emerge as being intrinsically bound up with the very core of religion involving questions of idolatry, mimesis and illusionism that would prove central to the aesthetic debates of the eighteenth century.
The Italian Genius on Display
Author: Francesco Barreca
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004297413
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Held in Florence in 1929, the First National Exhibition of History of Science was a pivotal event in the shaping of Italian cultural panorama. With more than 8000 items on display coming from public and private lenders, it showed the general public how rich the Italian scientific heritage was and how it could be regarded as part of a general nation-claiming narrative, thus laying the foundation for today’s protection policy and scholarly research. Moreover, it is also a telling case-study that offers precious insights into the complex relationships between cultural enterprises and political power during the fascist era, helping us understand how today’s geography of Italian cultural institutions have been shaped and reshaped through time.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004297413
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Held in Florence in 1929, the First National Exhibition of History of Science was a pivotal event in the shaping of Italian cultural panorama. With more than 8000 items on display coming from public and private lenders, it showed the general public how rich the Italian scientific heritage was and how it could be regarded as part of a general nation-claiming narrative, thus laying the foundation for today’s protection policy and scholarly research. Moreover, it is also a telling case-study that offers precious insights into the complex relationships between cultural enterprises and political power during the fascist era, helping us understand how today’s geography of Italian cultural institutions have been shaped and reshaped through time.