Crossing over

• Titel: Crossing over
• Titelzusatz: art and science at Caltech 1920-2020
• Mitwirkende: Collopy, Peter Sachs [HerausgeberIn]
• Mitwirkende: Bohn-Spector, Claudia [HerausgeberIn]
• Institutionen: California Institute of Technology [Gastgebende Institution]
• Verf.angabe: edited by Peter Sachs Collopy and Claudia Bohn-Spector
• Verlagsort: Pasadena
• Verlagsort: Los Angeles, California
• Verlag: Caltech Library
• Verlag: Getty Publications
• E-Jahr: 2024
• Jahr: [2024]
• Jahr: [2024]
• Umfang: 319 Seiten
• Fussnoten: The exhibition is part of Getty's 2024-2025 program PST ART: Art & Science Collide.-- Publisher's website
• ISBN: 1-60606-942-X
• ISBN: 978-1-60606-942-4
• Schlagwörter: (s)Kunst / (s)Wissenschaft / (z)Geschichte 1920-2020
• Schlagwörter: (k)California Institute of Technology / (s)Kunst / (s)Wissenschaft / (z)Geschichte 1920-2020
• Dokumenttyp: Ausstellungskatalog: (Caltech : 27.09.2024-15.12.2024 : Pasadena)
• Dokumenttyp: Bildband
• Dokumenttyp: Aufsatzsammlung
• Sprache: eng
• RVK-Notation: LO 96499
• Sach-SW: Art et sciences - Californie - Pasadena - Histoire - Expositions
• Sach-SW: Communication visuelle en sciences - Expositions
• Sach-SW: Sciences dans l'art - Expositions
• Sach-SW: Art and science
• Sach-SW: History
• Sach-SW: Visual communication in science
• Sach-SW: Science in art
• Sach-SW: exhibition catalogs
• Sach-SW: Exhibition catalogs
• Sach-SW: Exhibition catalogs
• Sach-SW: Essays
• Sach-SW: Catalogues d'exposition
• Geograph. SW: California - Pasadena
• K10plus-PPN: 1917679068

Abstract

"Science is as much a visual practice as a textual or quantitative one. For centuries, scientists have used microscopes, telescopes, painting, illustration, printing, and photography to perceive nature and communicate what they see in it, often in collaboration with artists. In the twentieth century, scientists also came to view creativity as an essential resource and looked to art to foster it. Crossing Over is an interdisciplinary publication that looks at one prominent university--the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena--as a site for scientific and artistic image production. Uncovering the rich pictorial record embedded in its Archives and Special Collections, a team of visual culture scholars examines Caltech through a series of tightly focused case studies. How, the authors ask, have science and engineering institutions like Caltech used scientific representation, art, and architecture to construct themselves and produce discovery and invention? This book reveals new facets of life and work at Caltech that will be illuminating even to those familiar with the school, showcasing views that informed--and were informed by--the vibrant visual culture of Southern California."--