Sublime Science

by: Mark Girod

One of the shortcomings in most efforts to integrate art and science is that many of us have a shallow understanding of art, which inevitably leads to shallow connections between art and science. Coloring drawings of planets, building sculptures of volcanoes, and decorating scientific diagrams are fine activities, but they do not link science and art in powerful ways. One way to more deeply connect art and science is to consider art in its more broad form—aesthetics, and in this case, the sublime.

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Type Journal ArticlePub Date 2/1/2007Stock # sc07_044_06_26Volume 044Issue 06

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