{"product_id":"analyzing-art-and-aesthetics-isbn-9781935623137","title":"Analyzing Art and Aesthetics","description":"This ninth volume of the Artefacts series explores how artists have responded to developments in science and technology, past and present. Rather than limiting the discussion to art alone, editors Anne Collins Goodyear and Margaret Weitekamp also asked contributors to consider aesthetics: the scholarly consideration of sensory responses to cultural objects. When considered as aesthetic objects, how do scientific instruments or technological innovations reflect and embody culturally grounded assessments about appearance, feel, and use? And when these objects become museum artifacts, what aesthetic factors affect their exhibition? Contributors found answers in the material objects themselves. This volume reconsiders how science, technology, art, and aesthetics impact one another.Series Preface by Martin Collins \u003cbr\u003eForeword by G. Wayne Clough \u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eModels as Aesthetic Objects\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSection Introduction \u003cbr\u003eChapter 1 Using Science to Parse the Body: Some Artful Methods for Learning Medicine by Katherine Ott \u003cbr\u003eChapter 2 The Disappearing Model: Harvard’s Glass Flowers and the Perils of Trompe l’Oeil by Ellery Foutch \u003cbr\u003eChapter 3 “A Track Across What Is Now a Desert”: A. H. Munsell’s Quest for a System of Color by Erin McLeary \u003cbr\u003eChapter 4 Models: Assembled Realities in Architecture and Engineering by Dirk Buhler\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAesthetics of Technology\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSection Introduction \u003cbr\u003eChapter 5 \u003ci\u003eKarsh: Image Maker:\u003c\/i\u003eBringing Artifacts to an Art Show by Bryan Dewalt \u003cbr\u003eChapter 6 Softening the Orbiter:The Space Shuttle as Plaything and Icon by Margaret A. Weitekamp\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7 The Kilmer Complex: Artificial-Tree Cellular Towers and Landscape Aesthetics by Bernard Mergen \u003cbr\u003eChapter 8 Form Over Function? Technology, Aesthetics, and Identity at the National Museum of Scotland by Alison Taubman \u003cbr\u003eChapter 9 \u003ci\u003eSplit + Splice: \u003c\/i\u003eAn Experiment in Scholarly Methodologyand Exhibition Making by Martha Fleming \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003cbr\u003eArtists Interpret Science and Technology\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSection Introduction \u003cbr\u003eChapter 10 Mercurial Pigments and the Alchemy of John Singleton Copley’s \u003ci\u003eWatson and the Shark \u003c\/i\u003eby David Bjelajac\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11 C. A. A. Dellschau: An Outsider Artist and the Dream of Flight by Tom D. Crouch \u003cbr\u003eChapter 12 African Cultural Astronomy and the Arts: A Preliminary Enquiry by Christine Mullen Kreamer\u003cbr\u003eChapter 13 The Mathematical Paintings of Crockett Johnson, 1965–1975: An Amateur and His Sources by Peggy Aldrich Kidwell\u003cbr\u003eChapter 14 Art in the Context of a Science Institution: A Case Study of the Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences by J. D. Talasek\u003cbr\u003eChapter 15 Retaking the Universe: Art and Appropriated Astronomical Artifacts by Elizabeth A. Kessler \u003cbr\u003eChapter 16 The Medium as Message in Contemporary Portraiture by Anne Collins Goodyear\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCollaboration in Action: Three Perspectives on the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship Program\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 17 Contemporary Art Informed by Science: The Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship by Jane Milosch\u003cbr\u003eChapter 18 The Influence and Inspiration from Taking Part in the Smithsonian’s Artist Research Fellowship Program by Shih Chieh Huang \u003cbr\u003eChapter 19 Light at the Museum by Lynne R. Parenti \u003cbr\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003cbr\u003eIndexAnne Collins Goodyear is Co-Director of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Previously, she was Curator of Prints and Drawings at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, and Professorial Lecturer in Art and Art History at The George Washington University. She is coeditor, with James W. McManus, of Inventing Marcel Duchamp: The Dynamics of Portraiture (Washington, DC: National Portrait Gallery, 2009) and has published numerous essays exploring intersections between modern and contemporary art and portraiture with science and technology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMargaret A. Weitekamp, PhD, is a curator in the Space History Division at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, where she oversees over 4,000 pieces of space memorabilia and space science fiction objects. She wrote \u003ci\u003eRight Stuff, Wrong Sex: America’s First Women in Space Program\u003c\/i\u003e (2004), winner of the Eugene M. Emme Award for Astronautical Literature from the American Astronautical Society. She earned her BA at the University of Pittsburgh and her PhD at Cornell University.The 9th volume of the Artefacts series explores artist response to science and technology, and interaction of science, technology, art and aesthetics.","brand":"Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302251221221,"sku":"NP9781935623137","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781935623137.jpg?v=1767721530","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/analyzing-art-and-aesthetics-isbn-9781935623137","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}