{"title":"Lynn Gamwell","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLynn Gamwell\u003c\/strong\u003e offers insightful explorations into the intersections of art, science, and culture. Her works often delve into the hidden connections behind visual and conceptual art, inviting readers to uncover layers of meaning beyond the obvious.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a focus on \u003cem\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/em\u003e, Gamwell's books illuminate the invisible forces that shape creativity and knowledge. Readers can expect thoughtful narratives that weave history, psychology, and aesthetics into compelling journeys of discovery.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"exploring-the-invisible-by-lynn-gamwell-9780691191058","title":"Exploring the Invisible","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHow science changed the way artists understand reality\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExploring the Invisible\u003c\/em\u003e shows how modern art expresses the first secular, scientific worldview in human history. Now fully revised and expanded, this richly illustrated book describes two hundred years of scientific discoveries that inspired French Impressionist painters and Art Nouveau architects, as well as Surrealists in Europe, Latin America, and Japan. Lynn Gamwell describes how the microscope and telescope expanded the artist's vision into realms unseen by the naked eye.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the nineteenth century, a strange and exciting world came into focus, one of microorganisms in a drop of water and spiral nebulas in the night sky. The world is also filled with forces that are truly unobservable, known only indirectly by their effects—radio waves, X-rays, and sound-waves. Gamwell shows how artists developed the pivotal style of modernism—abstract, non-objective art—to symbolise these unseen worlds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eStarting in Germany with Romanticism and ending with international contemporary art, she traces the development of the visual arts as an expression of the scientific worldview in which humankind is part of a natural web of dynamic forces without predetermined purpose or meaning. Gamwell reveals how artists give nature meaning by portraying it as mysterious, dangerous, or beautiful.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a foreword by Neil deGrasse Tyson and a wealth of stunning images, this expanded edition of \u003cem\u003eExploring the Invisible\u003c\/em\u003e draws on the latest scholarship to provide a global perspective on the scientists and artists who explore life on Earth, human consciousness, and the space-time universe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47462981009644,"sku":"9780691191058","price":155.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780691191058-exploring-the-invisible.jpg?v=1775026097"},{"product_id":"mathematics-and-art-by-lynn-gamwell-9780691165288","title":"Mathematics and Art","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a cultural history of mathematics and art, from antiquity to the present. Mathematicians and artists have long been on a quest to understand the physical world they see before them and the abstract objects they know by thought alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTaking readers on a tour of the practice of mathematics and the philosophical ideas that drive the discipline, Lynn Gamwell points out the important ways mathematical concepts have been expressed by artists. Sumptuous illustrations of artworks and cogent math diagrams are featured in Gamwell's comprehensive exploration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGamwell begins by describing mathematics from antiquity to the Enlightenment, including Greek, Islamic, and Asian mathematics. Then, focusing on modern culture, she traces mathematicians' search for the foundations of their science, such as David Hilbert's conception of mathematics as an arrangement of meaning-free signs, as well as artists' search for the essence of their craft, such as Aleksandr Rodchenko's monochrome paintings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShe shows that self-reflection is inherent to the practice of both modern mathematics and art, and that this introspection points to a deep resonance between the two fields: Kurt Godel posed questions about the nature of mathematics in the language of mathematics and Jasper Johns asked \"What is art?\" in the vocabulary of art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout, Gamwell describes the personalities and cultural environments of a multitude of mathematicians and artists, from Gottlob Frege and Benoit Mandelbrot to Max Bill and Xu Bing. \u003cem\u003eMathematics and Art\u003c\/em\u003e demonstrates how mathematical ideas are embodied in the visual arts and will enlighten all who are interested in the complex intellectual pursuits, personalities, and cultural settings that connect these vast disciplines.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47463575486700,"sku":"9780691165288","price":195.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780691165288-mathematics-and-art.jpg?v=1775034841"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/lynn-gamwell.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}