Secret Knowledge: Science and Art
At the Royal Society on Friday 26 October at 6.30pm,
David Hockney, one of the UK's most highly regarded living artists, and
author of Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old
Masters, will be in conversation with:
- John Spike, art historian and author of a forthcoming book on Caravaggio
- Martin Kemp, Professor of the History of Art, at the University of Oxford
and author of the recently published book Visualizations. The Nature Book of
Science and Art
- Richard Gregory FRS of the Department of Experimental Psychology in the
University of Bristol.
- Colin Blakemore FRS and author of The Oxford Companion to the Body will
chair the discussion centring on how optical aids and the science of optics
helped to revolutionize drawing and painting from the 15th Century. There
will also be opportunity for questions from the floor.
Admission is FREE though spaces are limited, no advance booking is required
and seats will be allocated on a strictly first come first served basis. The
Society reserves the right to refuse admission.
"...any profound treatment of 19th-century art and that of the last five
centuries requires an interpretation that takes into account... the link
between science and art and all its consequences. Photography is but the
final culmination of a long development and must not be studied historically
as an isolated phenomenon of the 19th and 20th centuries. For the spirit of
photography is much older than its history." HEINRICH SCHWARZ
Information:
The Royal Society Public Programme Office
tel: 020 7451 2576
email: [log in to unmask]
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