The What and the Where of Color
December 19, 2018
David Scott Kastan & Stephen Farthing— Our lives are saturated by color. The sky above us is blue (or gray or pink or purple or nearly black). The grass we… READ MORE
Tag: art + science
Art + Science: Jennifer Raab on Frederic Church
January 20, 2016
Jennifer Raab — Years ago, standing in front of Frederic Edwin Church’s The Heart of the Andes (1859) at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, I wondered, why is this painting… READ MORE
Art + Science: Eadweard Muybridge’s photographic motion studies
October 28, 2015
Sarah Gordon– In 1878, photographer Eadweard Muybridge stunned audiences in the United States and abroad when he quickened the shutter of his camera to freeze the motion of a trotting… READ MORE
Art + Science: Ian McClure on Diego Velázquez’s “Education of the Virgin”
September 4, 2015
Art conservation offers a fascinating overlap between the worlds of art and science; conservators examine works of art using tools and methods such as microscopy, X-radiography, X-ray fluorescence, and infrared… READ MORE
Art + Science: Michelle Foa on Georges Seurat
June 2, 2015
Today we are excited to introduce you to a new series on our our Yale University Press Art & Architecture blog: Art + Science. Posts featured here will occupy that… READ MORE
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