The Moon and the Western Imagination.(Review)

From: Utopian Studies | Date: January 1, 2001| Author: Kennedy, Joanie | Copyright information

Scott L. Montgomery. The Moon and the Western Imagination. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1999. xiii + 265 pp. $35.00.

HOW DOES ART begin to be scientific? This query comes to mind in reading Scott L. Montgomery's charming survey of Ancient and Early Modern images of the moon. I say images, because it is one of the appeals of art and science history to deliberate the character of the scientific pictorial enterprise. When historians write now of the artist's or ...

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