
Arts: A Science Matter
A SCIENCE MATTER
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
1st Edition
Published on 27. April 2011
Book
Hardback
416 pages
978-981-4324-93-9 (ISBN)
Description
This book treats arts as part of science, from the unified perspective of Science Matters. It contains 17 chapters, with 18 contributors who are prominent humanists, professional artists, or scientists. It consists of three parts: Part I: Philosophy and History of Arts; Part II: Arts in Action; Part III: Understanding Arts. The book is aimed at both research scholars and laypeople, and is unique in two important aspects. It is probably the first and only book that academic professionals and practicing artists contribute to the same book, as equals, on the common theme of creating and understanding arts. (Artists here include Cristina Leiria whose huge Kun Iam (Goddess of Mercy) sculpture is an important landmark in Macau, and the famous movie director, Hark Tsui, who is publishing his first ever article on movie-making). Perhaps more importantly, a new understanding of the origin and nature of arts is offered for the first time, which is more convincing than all the other hypotheses put forth in the last two thousand years.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Singapore
Singapore
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
750 gr
ISBN-13
978-981-4324-93-9 (9789814324939)
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Editor
Scientific Research Inst Bento Da Rocha Cabral, Portugal
San Jose State Univ, Usa
Content
Arts: A Science Matter (L Lam); Philosophy and History of Arts: The Latin ArtesA" and the Origin of Modern ArtsA" (B Hoppe); Science and Art: A Philosophical Perspective (G-S Wu); Neuroarthistory: Reuniting Ancient Traditions in a New Scientific Approach to the Understanding of Art (J Onians); Science and Art in China (B Liu); The Development of Science Theater (I Schneider); Arts in Action: The Silence of Art (C Leiria); Linsen's Art (L Ngai); From Curiosity to Creation: The Art Work of Holly Lane (H Lane); ChemArt and BioArt (M Burguete); Making Movies and Making Physics (H Tsui & L Lam); A Journey along the Borderland: A Critical Approach to Artificial Intelligence-Based Literary Practice (J-C Zhu & D F Harrell); Understanding Arts: On the Origin of Literary Narrative and Its Relation to Adaptation (P Hogan); Emotion, Cognition and Aesthetic Form in Vishal Bhardwaj's Omkara and Shakespeare's Othello (L Hogan); Danmei Novels and Rotten Women (T-T Wang); Objects in Art and Science (N Sanitt); Su Dong-Po's Bamboo and Paul Cezanne's Apple (L Lam & L-M Qiu).