Exploring the Invisible: Art, Science, and the Spiritual

By Lynn Gamwell

Categories: Arts & Photography, Science & Math

Exploring the Invisible: Art, Science, and the Spiritual is a study by art historian Lynn Gamwell, first published by Princeton University Press in 2002 and issued in a revised and expanded edition in 2020, with a foreword by Neil deGrasse Tyson. Gamwell traces how modern artists, from the Romantics onward, responded to scientific discoveries of worlds invisible to the naked eye, from microbes and atoms to the vast expanding universe, and to the spiritual questions they raised.

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• Neil deGrasse Tyson: “The theories and discoveries of modern science may have limitless capacity to harness human emotion and unbridled wonder. If so, then artists can count among their many muses the cosmos itself. (Foreword written for this book, per his official site.)”