Introducing Science & Art or Art & Science

(‘art’ is intended in its widest and plural sense, as in ‘the arts’)

I have not included the literature (e.g., ‘canons’) on iconometry in Hindu (tāla māna) and Buddhist art and architecture. In some religious worldviews, the boundaries between mathematics, science and religious art are porous and provocative, hence Nigel Pennick’s Sacred Geometry: Symbolism and Purpose in Religious Structures (Harper & Row, 1980).

Although a few of these titles are prohibitively priced, there is some interesting stuff here:

• Battle-Baptiste, Whitney and Britt Russert, eds. W.E.B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits—Visualizing Black America: The Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (Princeton Architectural Press and the W.E.B. Du Bois Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2018).
• Burke, Christopher, Eric Kindel and Sue Walker, eds. Isotype: Design and Contexts, 1925-1971 (Hyphen Press, 2013).
• Daston, Lorraine, ed. Things That Talk: Object Lessons from Art and Science (Zone Books, 2004).
• Ivanova, Milena and Steven French, eds. The Aesthetics of Science: Beauty, Imagination and Understanding (Routledge, 2020).
• Ivanova, Milena and Alice Murphy, eds. The Aesthetics of Scientific Experiments (Routledge, 2023).
• Kahn, Fritz, Otto Neurath, et al. (Helena Doudova, Stephanie Jacobs, and Patrick Rössler, eds.) Image Factories: Infographics, 1920-1945 (Spector Books, 2018).
• Massimi, Michela. Perspectival Realism (Oxford University Press, 2022). [In particular, see her discussion of how ‘two varieties of perspectival representation in art’ is analogously similar to ‘two kinds of perspectival representations in science.’]
• Picon, Antoine and Alessandra Ponte, eds. Architecture and the Sciences: Exchanging Metaphors (Princeton Architectural Press, 2003).
• Vossoughian, Nader. Otto Neurath: The Language of the Global Polis (NAi Publishers, 2008).
• Zee, Anthony. Fearful Symmetry: The Search for Beauty in Modern Physics (Princeton University Press, 2007 [earlier editions: 1986 and 1999]).