A Bridge between Science and Art? The Artistic Reception of On Growth and Form in Interwar Britain, c. 1930–42
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11938017 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Edward Juler (University of Edinburgh, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 35-48 |
| Publication date | 2013-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-0188 • E-ISSN: 1743-2790 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1179/0308018813z.00000000031 |
| OpenAlex | W2117126338 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
Taking Herbert Read’s 1942 review of the second edition of On Growth and Form as its starting point, this article explores the artistic response to the work of D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson during the 1930s and early 1940s through the frame of the culture of popular science and the powerful current of interest that artists directed towards science at the time. The role of Thomson’s work as a bridge between natural science and art, occupying the middle ground between poetry, philosophy and science, is described. Its creative use-value to Modernist artists as a pioneering work of morphology is discussed
Art · Art history · Bridge (graph theory · Literature · Poetry · Value (mathematics · Visual arts · Computer Science · History and Theory of Mathematics · History of Science and Natural History
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0.1 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2016 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |