Art and Science in Word and Image' investigates the theme of "riddles of form", exploring how discovery and innovation have functioned inter-dependently between art, literature and the sciences. Using the impact of evolutionary biologist D'Arcy...
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Art and Science in Word and Image' investigates the theme of "riddles of form", exploring how discovery and innovation have functioned inter-dependently between art, literature and the sciences. Using the impact of evolutionary biologist D'Arcy Thompson's 'On Growth and Form' on Modernist practices as springboard into the theme, contributors consider engagements with mysteries of natural form in painting, photography, fiction, etc., as well as theories about cosmic forces, and other fields of knowledge and enquiry. Hence the collection also deals with topics including cultural inscriptions of gardens and landscapes, deconstructions of received history through word and image artworks and texts, experiments in poetic materiality, graphic re-mediations of classic fiction, and textual transactions with animation and photography.
Aus dem Dankwort: "The essays in this volume are based on papers presented at the Tenth Triennal Coference on Word and Image Studies, "Riddles of Form: Exploration and Discovery in Word and Image", which was held from 11-15 August 2014 at the University of Dundee, Scotland"
