Foreword: Science as the artist's muse / Neil deGrasse Tyson
Introduction
Art in pursuit of the absolute : romanticism
Adopting a scientific worldview
The French art of observation : a cool rejection of Darwin
German and Russian art of the absolute : a warm embrace of Darwin
Loving and loathing science at the fin de siècle
Looking inward : art and the human mind
Wordless music and abstract art
The culmination of Newton's clockwork universe
Einstein's space-time universe
Abstract art with a cosmic perspective
Surrealist science
The atomic sublime
The disunity of nature : postmodern art, science, and the spiritual.