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9781893900059

The Universe

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  • ISBN13:

    9781893900059

  • ISBN10:

    1893900053

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-04-01
  • Publisher: Reaktion Books
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Summary

This highly illustrated volume presents a huge range of stunning images, from ninth-century European illuminated manuscripts and Renaissance books to the great astronomical photographs of the last 160 years, including images from the NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. Bringing the theme up to the present day, the book includes work by foremost contemporary American artists including Robert Rauschenberg and Rockne Krebs, specially commissioned for the occasion. Little-known archival materials include photographs from the collections of astronomers Edwin Hubble and George Ellery Hale (who initiated Palomar Observatory), rare books by Galileo, and metal celestial spheres, as well as European Old Master paintings and Asian representations of the universe.

Table of Contents

Prologue 11(2)
Jay Belloli
Preface and Acknowledgments
13(6)
Curatorial Committee
Cosmology and Cosmography, 1450-1650
19(14)
Denis Cosgrove
The Melody of Numbers
33(18)
Jeff von der Schmidt
Creation, Constellations, and the Cosmos
51(12)
Michelle Deziel
Christine Knoke
Constructing the Cosmos in the Religious Arts of Asia
63(12)
Meher McArthur
George Ellery Hale and the Development of Southern California
75(8)
Dan Lewis
Kandinsky, Schoenberg, and Einstein: Constructive Modernism before World War II
83(12)
Cornelius Schnauber
Contemporary Art and the Cosmos
95(14)
Jay Belloli
A Sense of Adventure
109(8)
De Witt Douglas Kilgore
Russell Crotty: A Diagram of Forces
117(12)
Stephen Nowlin
Exploring the Solar System
129(10)
Edward Stone
Humanity and the Universe: A Timeline
139(19)
Jennifer Gunlock
Participating Institutions 158(2)
Photography Credits 160

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