From STEM to STEAM : A Study of Art from the Perspective of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics

✍ Scribed by Arthur David Snider

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2024
• Tongue: English
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides readers with an introductory overview of art from the perspective of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The author utilizes well-known and important works of art to demonstrate how STEM concepts apply to them. The book’s examples include a structural analysis of Michelangelo’s David. The author covers major breakthroughs in art history, such as the discovery of perspective. The book also discusses other important elements of art, such as color, from a scientific point of view. The author ensures that readers will understand the art terms used by comparing them with terms used in STEM fields of study.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Structure of the Book
Choice of Subject Matter
Creative Commons License Links
Other Books by the Author
Contents
1 Introduction
2 Sculpture
2.1 Michelangelo’s David
2.2 Estimating the Stress on David’s Knees
2.3 Transporting Michelangelo’s Sculptures
2.4 Other Davids
2.5 Other Michelangelos
2.6 Depictions of the Damned
2.7 Vasari
2.8 Michelangelo’s Rivals
3 Perspective
3.1 Examples of Perspective
3.2 Quantifying Perspective
3.3 Vector Analysis of Perspective
3.4 The Discovery of Perspective
3.5 Filippo Brunelleschi
3.6 Drawing in Perspective
3.7 Impossible Objects
4 Color Theory: Physics and Physiology
4.1 What is Light?
4.2 The Speed of Light
4.3 Wavelength, Frequency, and Color
4.4 Refraction
4.5 Dispersion
4.6 Frequency Analysis
4.7 The Eye
4.8 Additive Color Phenomena
4.9 Trichromatic Color Theory
5 Color Theory: Technology
5.1 Subtractive Mixing
5.2 Color Addition by Juxtaposition
5.3 Pointillism: Georges Seurat
5.4 The Munsell Color Tree
5.5 Amedeo Modigliani
5.6 Paul Cezanne
5.7 Vincent Willem van Gogh
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