Stickwork

By Patrick Dougherty

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Building with Sticks and Stones (The New York Times)

Big Sticks, Speaking Softly (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Artist Bio (from Sculptor Website)
Combining his carpentry skills with his love of nature, Patrick Dougherty began to learn about primitive techniques of building and to experiment with tree saplings as construction material. Beginning about 1980 with small works, fashioned in his backyard, he quickly moved from single pieces on conventional pedestals to monumental site-specific installations that require sticks by the truckload. To date he has built over two hundred such massive sculptures all over the world. Read more…

 

Artscience: Creativity in the Post-Google Generation

By David Edwards

Format: print

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Artscience Labs Homepage

Author’s Website

Le Laboratoire Interview on NPR’s Weekend Edition

Publisher’s Description
Scientists are famous for believing in the proven and peer-accepted, the very ground that pioneering artists often subvert; they recognize correct and incorrect where artists see only true and false. And yet in some individuals, crossover learning provides a remarkable kind of catalyst to innovation that sparks the passion, curiosity, and freedom to pursue–and to realize–challenging ideas in culture, industry, society, and research. This book is an attempt to show how innovation in the “post-Google generation” is often catalyzed by those who cross a conventional line so firmly drawn between the arts and the sciences. Read more…

 

Art Forms in Nature: The Prints of Ernst Haeckel

By Ernst Haeckel

Format: print

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Brief Author Bio

New York Times Interview with Eddie Borgo about the artist and book

Publisher’s Description
The geometric shapes and natural forms, captured with exceptional precision in Ernst Haeckel’s prints, continue to influence artists and designers to this day. This attractive volume highlights the research and findings of this outstanding natural scientist (1834–1919). Powerful modern microscopes have confirmed the accuracy of Haeckel’s prints which, even in their day, rightly became world famous. Read more…

 

Passage

By Andy Goldsworthy

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Andy Goldsworthy Digital Catalog

Time Magazine Interview with the Artist

Publisher’s Description
Andy Goldsworthy’s Passage focuses on the journeys that people, rivers, landscapes, and even stones take through space and time…this beautiful book is an eloquent testament to Goldsworthy’s determination to deepen his understanding of the world around him, and his relationship with it, through his art. Read more…

More on Andy Goldsworthy in the Library’s Collection:

The Art of Andy Goldsworthy: Complete Works / William Malpas

Rivers and Tides: Working with Time (DVD)

 

Visualizations: The Nature Book of Art and Science

By Martin Kemp

Format: print

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Author’s Website

The Da Vinci Detective (includes an interview with Martin Kemp)

Description (from Amazon.com)
Martin Kemp’s provocative essays on the interplay between art and science have been entertaining readers of Nature, the world’s leading journal for the announcement of scientific discoveries, since 1997. These short, illustrated, highly regarded essays generally focus on one visual image from art or science and provide an evocative and erudite investigation into shared motifs in the two disciplines. Gathered together here with a delightfully rich introduction by the author, the essays take our understanding to an exciting new level as they transgress the traditional boundaries between art and science.
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Also in the Mitchell College Library:

Seen/unseen : art, science, and intuition from Leonardo to the Hubble telescope by Martin Kemp

 

Nature’s Patterns: A Tapestry in Three Parts

A trilogy composed of Shapes, Flow, and Branches

By Philip Ball

Format: print

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Author’s Website

The Paisley Leopard: a book review in American Scientist

Publisher’s Description
Patterns are everywhere in nature – in the ranks of clouds in the sky, the stripes of an angelfish, the arrangement of petals in flowers. Where does this order and regularity come from? It creates itself. The patterns we see come from self-organization. Whether living or non-living, scientists have found that there is a pattern-forming tendency inherent in the basic structure and processes of nature, so that from a few simple themes, and the repetition of simple rules, endless beautiful variations can arise. Part of a trilogy of books exploring the science of patterns in nature, acclaimed science writer Philip Ball here looks at how shapes form. Read more…

 

Biopiracy: the Plunder of Nature and Knowledge

By Vandana Shiva

Format: print

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Author’s Website

Top 100 Women: Activists and Campaigners
Nominated by The Guardian

Interview with Bill Moyers

Publisher’s Description
In this intelligently argued and ethically principled book, the internationally renowned Third World environmentalist exposes the latest frontier of the North’s ongoing assault against the South’s biological and other resources. Since the land, the forests, the oceans, and the atmosphere have already been colonized, eroded, and polluted, she argues, Northern capital is now carving out new colonies to exploit for gain: the interior spaces of the bodies of women, plants, and animals.

 

The Tangled Field: Barbara McClintock’s Search for the Patterns of Genetic Control

By Nathaniel C. Comfort

Format: print and ebook

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Book Review from American Scientist

Biography from Nobelprize.org
Winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine

Publisher’s Description
Barbara McClintock (1902-1992), a geneticist who integrated classical genetics with microscopic observations of the behavior of chromosomes, was regarded as a genius and as an unorthodox, nearly incomprehensible thinker. In 1946, she discovered mobile genetic elements, which she called “controlling elements.” Thirty-seven years later, she won a Nobel Prize for this work, becoming the third woman to receive an unshared Nobel in science. Since then, McClintock has become an emblem of feminine scientific thinking and the tragedy of narrow-mindedness and bias in science. Learn more…

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