Tra ricerca dell’invisibile, microscopi e astrazione: influenza delle immagini tecnico-scientifiche sulle rappresentazioni artistiche

Abstract

This paper aims to understand the aesthetic influence of the microphotographies both in popular scientific and artistic contexts, with a specifical focus regarding the Italian context. In the first section I approach the dialectic between art and science considering the first books and theories about microscopy and its philosophical impact on epistemology and on art theory. Then I developed this dialectic in order to understand the relation between traditional abstraction and new postwar abstraction in Italy, using some historical case studies.