Record "There are other forms of culture beside physical science; and I should be profoundly sorry to see the fact forgotten, or even to observe a tendency to starve, or cripple, literary, or aesthetic, culture for the sake of science."--Thomas Henry Huxley, Scientific Education, 1869. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man. | Collections Search Center, Smithsonian Institution

"There are other forms of culture beside physical science; and I should be profoundly sorry to see the fact forgotten, or even to observe a tendency to starve, or cripple, literary, or aesthetic, culture for the sake of science."--Thomas Henry Huxley, Scientific Education, 1869. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.

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Artist:: Gyorgy Kepes, born Selyp, Hungary 1906-died Cambridge, MA 2001 Search this

Medium:: acrylic and graphite on paper mounted on paperboard

Dimensions:: sheet: 23 1/8 x 17 1/8 in. (58.8 x 43.5 cm)

Type:: Painting

Date:: 1958

Topic:: Abstract Search this

Credit Line:: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Container Corporation of America

Object number:: 1984.124.157

Restrictions & Rights:: Usage conditions apply

See more items in:: Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection

Department:: Graphic Arts

Data Source:: Smithsonian American Art Museum

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EDAN-URL:: edanmdm:saam_1984.124.157