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In The Shock of Recognition, Lewis Pyenson examines art and science together to shed new light on common motifs in Picasso’s and Einstein’s education, in European material culture, and in the intellectual life of one nation-state, Argentina.
“[…] this impressive book, which clearly is the culmination of many years' research and writing […] will make an invaluable addition to any scientist's library.” - Raymond L. Lee Jr., American Journal of Physics 91, 327 (2023) "I believe this brawny book makes a major contribution to our understanding of how different disciplines, seemingly isolated, can express similar patterns of thought or concepts. Highly recommended." - David R. Topper, Senior Scholar in History of Art, University of Winnipeg, in: Amazon.ca book review (May 30, 2021) "A esa mirada analítica, aplicada a dos campos fundamentales de la actividad humana [el de la historia de la ciencia y el de la historia de las artes plásticas], hay que concebirla como un dispositivo de exploración y descubrimiento de motivos, es decir, complejos significantes de nociones y prácticas detectables tanto en la indagación científica cuanto en la creación estética. La forma en que Pyenson presenta los antecedentes de su propuesta metodológica y cognitiva, a la que él llama “complementariedad historiográfica”, es exhaustiva, precisa y generosa." - José Emilio Burucúa, Universidad Nacional de San Martín, In: Prismas - Revista De Historia Intelectual, 26(1) (2022), 285–286.
Lewis Pyenson is Emeritus Professor of History at Western Michigan University, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and former graduate dean. Widely published in the history of modern science, he is also a novelist and sculptor.