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Title:
Impressions: the United States Science Exhibit, Seattle World's Fair, 1962Creator/Contributor:
Spilhaus, Athelstan, author.Abstract:
Color lithographs intending to illustrate intersections between science and art.
Date:
1962 (issued)Subject:
Science in art -- SpecimensSciences dans l'art -- Spécimens
Century 21 Exposition (1962 : Seattle, Wash.)
Note:
foreword by Athelstan Spilhaus.
Also includes printed foreword and contents sheet, from which title is derived.
From foreword: "The scientist is trained to mistrust the raw information of his senses until analysis and experiment show
him their interpretation. The artist interprets what he see and feels, uninhibited by strict physical analysis. Yet from the
opposite approaches of these two fields there is a merging which emphasizes their common bases of perception and communication..."
Purchase from Zephyr Used and Rare Books ; 2022.
Impressions : the United States Science Exhibit, Seattle World's Fair, 1962, BANC PIC 2023.076, The Bancroft Library, University
of California, Berkeley.
Type:
graphiclithographs.
Lithographs.
Lithographies.
Physical Description:
print
19 prints (issued in box), housed in 1 folder : color lithographs ; sheets and box 33 x 29 cm
Language:
English