Search results for ""Author Scott Eastham""
James Clarke & Co Ltd American Dreamer: Bucky Fuller and the Sacred Geometry of Nature
Synergetics can be defined as the exploratory strategy of starting with the whole. It was in the 1940s that Buckminster Fuller developed a series of spherical models which embodied the synergetic theory within geometry. This study of Fuller's sacred geometry describes with vigour and in detail how his spherical figures relate both to Nature and to the tenets of synergetics. The author assesses the legacy of Fuller, a scientist-artist-engineer extraordinaire whose visions were inspired by the American Dream, and portrays with enthusiasm and sympathy the creative and individual science of a man whose character was as multifaceted as the domes he created. Discover the theory behind the idea that the straight lines and boxes of science and maths are inadequate for representing Nature's spherical and cyclical patterns of growth. The ways in which Fullerís synergetics can be seen in the ancient iconographies of the past are also revealed with fresh insight. In addition, Eastham looks to the future artistic applications of Fuller's wholes, with the aim of inspiring the reader to think outside of the box themselves. 'We sought for years to bring out a brief alternative geometry textbook. [...] It's not easy to produce a round thing in a square world...' Extract from the Introduction.
£49.45
University Press of America The Way of the Maker: Eric Wesselow's 'Life Through Art'
The articles collected in this volume have been selected and edited by Scott Eastham from over twenty years of Eric Wesselow's lectures and writings. They center on art and spirituality but also encompass linguistics, philosophy, communication studies, and education. In these essays, Wesselow demonstrates an uncanny capacity for allowing the reader to witness the processes of art from the inside. He lets us stand by him as he takes in hand various materials and attends carefully not only to what he can do with them, but to what they do to him and what there is to learn from each. Eric Wesselow shows us that the visionary dimension of art brings us not a vision of some other world, but a reawakening of the artist in each of us, graced with the gift of seeing this very world in all its radiance.
£58.19
