Conjuring the Void

The Art of Black Holes

Lynn Gamwell, Neil deGrasse Tyson (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

208 Seiten

2025
MIT Press (Verlag)
9780262049962 (ISBN)

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An evocative and richly illustrated exploration of modern art about black holes. Inescapable and mysterious, black holes have long captured the imagination of visual artists, even before their existence was first confirmed in 1971. In Conjuring the Void, Lynn Gamwell explores this fascinating intersection of art and science. Starting with a chronological description of key developments in the science of black holes, Gamwell builds a foundation for the reader through visualizations of black holes created by scientists, depicting how a black hole s extreme gravity affects visible objects in its vicinity. From there, the book explores how artists have addressed the challenge of visualizing black holes by developing new methods of working with diverse materials, including a black paint that absorbs 99.96% of visible light. Gamwell looks at how certain themes within the science of black holes nothingness, emptiness, darkness, void, silence are prominent in traditional Eastern thought traditions as well as in modern abstract art. She also considers the work of contemporary artists such as Anish Kapoor, Olafur Eliasson, Takashi Murakami, and Danh V?, and discusses how they have explored these themes and more in their artworks. The book concludes with a look forward, describing dramatic developments in the imagery of black holes and their changing influence on visual culture.

Lynn Gamwell teaches the history of art, science, and mathematics at the School of Visual Arts in New York. She is the former director of the Art Museum of the State University of New York at Binghamton, a coauthor of Dreams 1900 2000, which won a 2000 Gradiva Award, and the author of Exploring the Invisible and Mathematics and Art.

Foreword by Neil deGrasse Tyson
1 Black Hole Basics
2 Historical and Philosophical Background to Imaging Black Holes
3 Artistic and Scientific Images of Invisible Objects
Notes
Acknowledgments
Photo and Diagram Credits
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	17.10.2025
Zusatzinfo	155 COLOR ILLUS.
Sprache	englisch
Maße	229 x 305 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Weltraum / Astronomie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
ISBN-13	9780262049962 / 9780262049962
Zustand	Neuware