The University of Texas at Dallas
Center for Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology

Public Forums on Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology

Presents Lynn Gamwell

"Spiritual Art in the Age of Science"

During the rise of modern science, traditional philosophical and theological questions about supernatural realms have been reformulated in the secular, naturalistic language of the laboratory.  Lynn Gamwell will give an illustrated tour of spiritual themes in early abstract art that emerged to express a scientific worldview.  She will focus on Jugendstil design of the 1890s that expressed the dynamic view of the human mind put forth by evolutionary biology and psychology, and art and architecture of the 1920s that embodied Einstein’s cosmic religion.