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Author Bronowski, Jacob, 1908-1974.

Title The visionary eye : essays in the arts, literature, and science / J. Bronowski ; selected and edited by Piero E. Ariotti in collaboration with Rita Bronowski.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1978]
©1978

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  NX65 .B696 1978    Available  ---
Description x, 185 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note Includes index.
Contents The nature of art -- The imaginative mind in art -- The imaginative mind in science -- The shape of things -- Architecture as a science and architecture as an art -- Art as a mode of knowledge (the A.W. Mellon lectures in fine arts for 1969) -- The power of artifacts -- The speaking eye, the visionary ear -- Music, metaphor, and meaning -- The act of recognition -- Imagination as plan and as experiment -- The play of values in the work of art.
Bibliography Includes index.
Summary Contains essays on art and culture.
Subject Arts.
Arts.
Science and the arts.
Science and the arts.
Imagination.
Imagination.
Indexed Term Arts
Added Author Ariotti, Piero E.
Bronowski, Rita.
ISBN 0262021293
9780262021296
0262520680
9780262520683