THE CREATIVE REVOLUTION: HOW SCIENCE AND ART REINVENTED THE MODERN WORLD

Book ID/图书代码： 13000511B44796

English Summary/英文概要： An acknowledged authority on creativity in the arts and science and a distinguished biographer and historian of science tells the parallel stories of art and science in the twentieth century.

In a century when both art and science fragmented into apparently diffuse and divergent strands, Arthur I. Miller reveals how artists and scientists were in fact primarily tackling the same problem: fathoming the reality beneath appearances: visualizing the invisible. In essence a group biography, his book is the first to document this revolution in creative thinking that swept through both fields in the twentieth century.

With his eye for a good story and keen sense of what makes people tick, Miller recounts how over the past hundred years artists and scientists – from Einstein and Picasso, to Dali and Feynman, to Warhol and Mandelbrot – have interacted with and influenced one another: how science has transformed art, how art has transformed science and how these two ways of seeing the world are today starting to merge. Along the way he shows how scientific and artistic developments are motivated by personal passion, ambition and rivalry; how ideas and discoveries are moulded by their cultural and political backdrop; and how the mind governs the creative process and informs our notions of beauty and elegance in science as well as in art – questions that have preoccupied him for most of his professional career.

From the pioneers of quantum theory and abstract expressionism in pre-First World War Europe, to the avant-garde group of artists and engineers behind seminal performance-art events in New York in the 1960s, to today’s dazzling explorations of the atomic world today by physicists at CERN in Switzerland and artists such as Ai Weiwei in China, THE CREATIVE REVOLUTION is an epic narrative embracing the crucial thinkers and practitioners, works and results, and areas and movements that have driven art and science in the twentieth century and beyond. The result promises to be a landmark book that stands out for its originality, dramatic flair and intellectual importance – one that radically alters our understanding of how art and science have shaped the way in which we view the modern world.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 本书的作者是一位知识渊博、在艺术和科学的创造力颇有研究成果的学术权威人士；不仅如此，他还是一位传记作者以及一位科学历史学家。通过本书他向我们介绍了20世纪有关艺术和科学的故事。

在艺术和科学都不断细化，分工不断明确的时代，作家米勒揭示了艺术家和科学家都在解决的问题，那就是如何在众谜团中拨云见日，揭示真相。实际上，在众多传记作品中，在用实例证明这场变革是以前所未有的方式席卷20世纪的所有领域的书籍中，此书绝对算得上开山之作。

米勒对好故事有着敏锐的鉴别力，对让人们追求的事物也有独到的眼光。他详述了在过去的几百年间，艺术家和科学家们——从爱因斯坦到毕加索，从达利到费曼，从沃霍尔到曼德勃罗——彼此之间是怎样相互影响的。譬如科学是怎样改变艺术的，艺术又是怎样影响科学的，我们当今的世界观又是如何形成的。他还向大家展示了个人激情、野心和竞争心理又是如何推动科学和艺术的发展的；文化和政治背景是如何塑造思想，带来新发现的；思想是怎样指导创造性思维的进程的，怎样塑造我们的审美观；以及怎样使科学和艺术变得更臻完美。米勒的整个职业生涯都在为解决这些困惑而努力。

从第一次世界大战前欧洲量子理论和抽象表现主义的先驱，到20世纪六十年代纽约先锋派艺术家和种子性能事件事件背后的工程师，到今天瑞士欧洲核子研究委员会令人眼花缭乱的原子世界的新发现，到中国像艾薇薇这样的艺术家，这一创造性的变革是一叙述性史诗，讲述了推动20世纪艺术和科学发展的重要的思想家和实践者，劳动及所得，发生重大变革的地区，以及具有重大意义的运动。一本具有里程碑意义的书似乎能说明这一革命的独创性；让人惊叹的天才和禀赋；以及知识的重要性——这本书从根本上使艺术和科学如何改变我们对当今时代的看法，发生了变化。(兼职翻译-XMM)

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About the Author/作者介绍： 米勒I. 教授是英国伦敦大学学院历史和科学哲学系的名誉教授。他已出版了好几本深受好评的书籍，近期出版的书籍有《爱因斯坦和毕加索》(Basic, 2001)，以及进入艾凡提斯科学书奖提名的《行星帝国》（米夫林出版公司）。作为一名经验丰富的广播员、讲师和传记作者，他还对科学与创造力之间的关系感兴趣，并且能深入浅出的描述复杂的社会和学术性喜剧，将科学领域里的人物关系巧妙的编织起来，让自己写的书像小说那样，让读者爱不释手。

ARTHUR I. MILLER is emeritus professor of history and philosophy of science at University College London. He is the author of several acclaimed books, the most recent of which are EINSTEIN, PICASSO (Basic, 2001) and EMPIRE OF THE STARS (Little, Brown/Houghton Mifflin, 2005), which was shortlisted for the 2006 Aventis Prize for Science Books. An experienced broadcaster, lecturer and biographer, he is particularly interested in the relationship between science and creativity, and noted for being able to write engagingly about complex social and intellectual dramas, weaving the personal with the scientific to produce page-turners that read like novels.

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