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This revealing study considers the remarkable alliance between chemistry and art from the late eighteenth century to the period immediately following the Second World War. Synthetic Worlds offers fascinating new insights into the place of the material object and the significance of the natural, the organic, and the inorganic in Western aesthetics.

Esther Leslie considers how radical innovations in chemistry confounded earlier alchemical and Romantic philosophies of science and nature while profoundly influencing the theories that developed in their wake. She also explores how advances in chemical engineering provided visual artists with new colors, surfaces, coatings, and textures, thus dramatically recasting the way painters approached their work. Ranging from Goethe to Hegel, Blake to the Bauhaus, Synthetic Worlds ultimately considers the astonishing affinities between chemistry and aesthetics more generally. As in science, progress in the arts is always assured, because the impulse to discover is as immutable and timeless as the drive to create.

• introduction: Glints, Facets and Essence
• Substance and Philosophy, Coal and Poetry
• Eyelike Blots and Synthetic Colour
• Shimmer and Shine, Waste and Effort in the Exchange Economy
• Twinkle and Extra-terrestriality: A Utopian Interlude
• Class Struggle in Colour
• Nazi Rainbows
• Abstraction and Extraction in the Third Reich
• After Germany: Pollutants, Aura and Colours That Glow
• conclusion: Nature's Beautiful Corpse
• References
• Select Bibliography
• Acknowledgements
• Index