Moon. Art, science, culture.
An essential transversal work to know how the Moon has made us the way we are.
The Moon, source of light in the darkness and ever-changing cosmic companion, has fascinated mankind since we first looked up at the firmament.
In this volume, profusely illustrated in full color, the astronomer Robert Massey and the historian Alexandra Loske offer a fascinating journey through all the fields in which the Moon has influenced humanity: from the space race to music, from romantic painting to religions, passing through literature, architecture, philosophy, photography, fashion, advertising or cinema. An essential transversal work to know how the Moon has made us the way we are.
Technical specifications:
- Authors: Alexandra Loske and Robert Massey
- Translator: Dulcinea Otero-Piñeiro
- Collection: Akal Grandes temas
- Subject: Religion, Art, Music, Cinema, Astronomy, Music, Movies
- Language: Spanish
- Publication date: 25-02-2019
- Pages: 240
- Dimensions: Width 19 cm, Height 23.5 cm
- Edition: 1
- Format: Hardcover
About the authors:
- Alexandra Loske is an art historian, curator and editor with a particular interest in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century European art and architecture. She has worked at the University of Sussex since 1999. She is managing editor of Frogmore Press and publishes the literary journal The Frogmore Papers
- Robert Massey is an astronomer and currently serves as deputy executive director and press officer of the Royal Astronomical Society in London. Always concerned with the dissemination of knowledge, his work currently focuses on the dissemination ofscientific resultsand the study of Astronomy
Contents:
- Introduction
- The female Moon
- Ancient lunar deities
- The Moon of melancholy
- The Moon and death
- The eclipsed Moon
- The lunar X: drawing the Moon
- The first men on the Moon
- Dress rehearsal for landing on the Moon
- Nebra's celestial disk
- Voyage dans la Lune, by Georges Méliès
- Earthrise
- Nasmyth and Carpenter's visions of the Moon
- Lunar rovers: driving on the Moon
- Soviet propaganda of the space race
- Sergey Korolyov
- Margaret Hamilton
- Fashion in the space age ..
- Paper moons
- Lycanthropy
- Lunatics
- Supermoons
- Phases of the Moon
- Lunar lava tubes: Homes of the future?
- The great lunar fraud
- Islam and the Moon
- Harriot's lunar map of 1609
- There is not (only) one man on the Moon
- The names of the Moon
- The blue marble
- The Moon and destiny
- The Moon is moving away
- The lunar base
- Essays (see above)
- Alphabetical index
- Acknowledgements of the authors
Moon. Art, science, culture.
