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Art and…

General Editor: Chris Townsend

The ﬁrst premise of the Art and… series is that art matters. By this I mean that

art is not a futile game played by a few cognoscenti in a vacuum. Rather our

assumption in selecting titles for the series is that contemporary art is crucial

to our understanding of, and relationship to, the world in which we live. Often

the ﬁrst response to art, especially in the popular press, is to stress its seeming

frivolity, its surface shock, rather than trying to draw out the deeper issues at

stake within it. Yet art still has the capacity to challenge and to change us.

Without pasting up slogans, artists have important things to say about the

conditions of our times and, directly or indirectly, they have chosen to take

on some of the biggest issues in the world today. In producing this series

we have deliberately aligned ‘art’ and those perennial issues such as death

and sex which trouble generation after generation. And we have deliberately

sought out particular contemporary issues: scientiﬁc advances, advertising

and celebrity. Books published in the Art and… series will be accessible, but

intelligent. Serious and often difﬁcult art need not equate to difﬁcult writing

– rather it demands clarity, and this is the second premise of the series. Above

all Art and… aims to connect art back to the world.

Published and forthcoming:

Art and Advertising Joan Gibbons

Art and Death Chris Townsend

Art and Fame Jean Wainwright

Art and Home Nigel Prince

Art and Invention Jaime Stapleton

Art and Laughter Sheri Klein

Art and Obscenity Kerstin Mey

Art and Science Siân Ede

Art and Sex Gray Watson

Art and Surveillance Denna Jones

Art and War Laura Brandon

Art and Science

Siân Ede

Published in 2005 by I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd

6 Salem Road, London W2 4BU

175 Fifth Avenue, New York NY 10010

www.ibtauris.com

In the United States of America and in Canada distributed by

Palgrave Macmillan, a division of St Martin’s Press

175 Fifth Avenue, New York NY 10010

The right of Siân Ede to be identiﬁed as the author of this work has been asserted by

thereof, may not be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or

transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying,

recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

ISBN 1 85043 583 9 hardback

EAN 978 1 85043 583 9 hardback

ISBN 1 85043 584 7 paperback

EAN 978 1 85043 584 6 paperback

A full CIP record for this book is available from the British Library

A full CIP record for this book is available from the Library of Congress

Library of Congress catalog card: available

Typeset in Agfa Rotis by Steve Tribe, Andover

Printed and bound in Great Britain by MPG Books Ltd, Bodmin

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