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This volume explores theroles anduses of abstraction in scientific and artistic practice. Conceived as an interdisciplinary dialogue between experts across histories and philosophies of art and science, this collection of essaysdraws on the shared premise thatabstraction is a rich and generative process, not reducible to the mere omission of details in a representation.

When scientists attempt to make sense of complex natural phenomena, they often produce highly abstract models of them.In the history and philosophy of art, there is a long tradition of debate on the function of abstraction, and more recently its relation with theories of depiction.Adopting a process-oriented perspective, thechapters in this volumeexplore the epistemic potential of a diversity of practices of abstracting. The systematic analysis of a wide range of historical cases, from early twentieth-century abstractionist painting to contemporary abstract photography, and from nineteenth-century physics to

Abstraction in Science and Art

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      Publisher Taylor & Francis
      Imprint Taylor & Francis Ltd
      Published 1/30/2024
      ISBN-13 9781032462875
      978-1032462875
      ISBN-10 1032462876
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      Science & Nature History of science

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      This volume explores theroles anduses of abstraction in scientific and artistic practice. Conceived as an interdisciplinary dialogue between experts across histories and philosophies of art and science, this collection of essaysdraws on the shared premise thatabstraction is a rich and generative process, not reducible to the mere omission of details in a representation.

      When scientists attempt to make sense of complex natural phenomena, they often produce highly abstract models of them.In the history and philosophy of art, there is a long tradition of debate on the function of abstraction, and more recently its relation with theories of depiction.Adopting a process-oriented perspective, thechapters in this volumeexplore the epistemic potential of a diversity of practices of abstracting. The systematic analysis of a wide range of historical cases, from early twentieth-century abstractionist painting to contemporary abstract photography, and from nineteenth-century physics to

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