TY - JOUR
T1 - Romantic-objectivism
T2 - developing a diagrammatic poetics of science
AU - Whittle, Michael
N1 - Publisher copyright:
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PY - 2021/7/3
Y1 - 2021/7/3
N2 - This essay discusses how Diagrammatic modes of representation are a distinct subset of images that coevolved with the scientific project to visually embody key ideals from the philosophy of science. In making diagrammatic art, artists have found various means to appropriate, exaggerate and subvert this set of characteristics unique to the diagram as part of their processes of creation and production. This is in an approach that I refer to as Romantic Objectivism. As a practicing artist with a background in Biomedicine, my drawing and sculptural praxes are presented as an ongoing project to develop a visual poetics of science beyond its purely factual and functional modes, in the spirit of the Romantic-period German scientist, philosopher and poet Novalis, and his recently rediscovered, unfinished project, the Romantic Encyclopedia.
AB - This essay discusses how Diagrammatic modes of representation are a distinct subset of images that coevolved with the scientific project to visually embody key ideals from the philosophy of science. In making diagrammatic art, artists have found various means to appropriate, exaggerate and subvert this set of characteristics unique to the diagram as part of their processes of creation and production. This is in an approach that I refer to as Romantic Objectivism. As a practicing artist with a background in Biomedicine, my drawing and sculptural praxes are presented as an ongoing project to develop a visual poetics of science beyond its purely factual and functional modes, in the spirit of the Romantic-period German scientist, philosopher and poet Novalis, and his recently rediscovered, unfinished project, the Romantic Encyclopedia.
KW - diagrammatology
KW - encyclopedistics
KW - romantic-objectivism
KW - art and science
KW - romantic encyclopaedia
KW - Novalis
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85116249693&doi=10.1080%2f14702029.2021.1951584&partnerID=40&md5=dc25d010bb2f7a8443967415aded60f2
U2 - 10.1080/14702029.2021.1951584
DO - 10.1080/14702029.2021.1951584
M3 - Journal article
SN - 1470-2029
VL - 20
SP - 283
EP - 298
JO - Journal of Visual Art Practice
JF - Journal of Visual Art Practice
IS - 3
ER -