Smithsonian Inst Pr, Sachbücher, Analyzing Art and Aesthetics (Englisch, 2013)

Series Preface by Martin Collins Foreword by G. Wayne Clough Acknowledgments Introduction Models as Aesthetic Objects Section Introduction Chapter 1 Using Science to Parse the Body: Some Artful Methods for Learning Medicine by Katherine Ott Chapter 2 The Disappearing Model: Harvard&rsquo s Glass Flowers and the Perils of Trompe l&rsquo Oeil by Ellery Foutch Chapter 3 &ldquo A Track Across What Is Now a Desert&rdquo : A. H. Munsell&rsquo s Quest for a System of Color by Erin McLeary Chapter 4 Models: Assembled Realities in Architecture and Engineering by Dirk Buhler Aesthetics of Technology Section Introduction Chapter 5 Karsh: Image Maker:Bringing Artifacts to an Art Show by Bryan Dewalt Chapter 6 Softening the Orbiter:The Space Shuttle as Plaything and Icon by Margaret A. Weitekamp Chapter 7 The Kilmer Complex: Artificial-Tree Cellular Towers and Landscape Aesthetics by Bernard Mergen Chapter 8 Form Over Function? Technology, Aesthetics, and Identity at the National Museum of Scotland by Alison Taubman Chapter 9 Split + Splice: An Experiment in Scholarly Methodologyand Exhibition Making by Martha Fleming Artists Interpret Science and Technology Section Introduction Chapter 10 Mercurial Pigments and the Alchemy of John Singleton Copley&rsquo s Watson and the Shark by David Bjelajac Chapter 11 C. A. A. Dellschau: An Outsider Artist and the Dream of Flight by Tom D. Crouch Chapter 12 African Cultural Astronomy and the Arts: A Preliminary Enquiry by Christine Mullen Kreamer Chapter 13 The Mathematical Paintings of Crockett Johnson, 1965&ndash 1975: An Amateur and His Sources by Peggy Aldrich Kidwell Chapter 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 Chapter 15 Retaking the Universe: Art and Appropriated Astronomical Artifacts by Elizabeth A. Kessler Chapter 16 The Medium as Message in Contemporary Portraiture by Anne Collins Goodyear Collaboration in Action: Three Perspectives on the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship Program Chapter 17 Contemporary Art Informed by Science: The Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship by Jane Milosch Chapter 18 The Influence and Inspiration from Taking Part in the Smithsonian&rsquo s Artist Research Fellowship Program by Shih Chieh Huang Chapter 19 Light at the Museum by Lynne R. Parenti About the Contributors Index.