| Description |
1 online resource (280 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Summary |
This revealing study considers the remarkable alliance between chemistry and art from the late eighteenth century to the period immediately following the Second World War. Synthetic worlds offers fascinating new insights into the place of the material object. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-273) and index. |
| Contents |
Synthetic Worlds cover; Imprint page; Contents; Introduction: Glints, Facets and Essence; 1 Substance and Philosophy, Coal and Poetry; 2 Eyelike Blots and Synthetic Colour; 3 Shimmer and Shine, Waste and Effort in the Exchange Economy; 4 Twinkle and Extra-terrestriality:A Utopian Interlude; 5 Class Struggle in Colour; Colour Plate Section; 6 Nazi Rainbows; 7 Abstraction and Extraction in the Third Reich; 8 After Germany: Pollutants, Aura and Colours That Glow; 9 Nature's Beautiful Corpse; References; Select Bibliography; Acknowledgements; Index. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Local Note |
EBSCOhost Art and Architecture Complete |
| Subject |
Art and science.
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Chemical industry -- Social aspects.
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Nature (Aesthetics)
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ART -- General.
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Art and science. (OCoLC)fst00815430
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Chemical industry -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00853011
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Nature (Aesthetics) (OCoLC)fst01034609
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Leslie, Esther. Synthetic Worlds. London : Reaktion Books, 2005 9781861892485 (OCoLC)57485528 |
| ISBN |
9781861895547 (electronic book) |
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1861895542 (electronic book) |
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1861892489 |
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9781861892485 |
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