Recently Sauntering in the library, my glance fell on Stephen H. Blackwell’s The Quill and the Scalpel: Nabokov’s Art and the Worlds of Science, The Ohio State University Press, 2009, to these lines (page 190):
Nabokov’s science was akin to his art in that it was essentially nonutilitarian from the standpoint of practical survival. He saw “pure science” and “pure art” as partners in the expansion of consciousness and the escape from the struggle for existence.
To view the two partners joined together in artist’s Luke Jerram large glass “viral sculptures,” click here.
For a brief biography of Vladimir Nabokov, click here. For a brief biography of Luke Jerram, click here. For Stephen H. Blackwell’s home page, click here.
Nabokov’s science was akin to his art in that it was essentially nonutilitarian from the standpoint of practical survival. He saw “pure science” and “pure art” as partners in the expansion of consciousness and the escape from the struggle for existence.
To view the two partners joined together in artist’s Luke Jerram large glass “viral sculptures,” click here.
For a brief biography of Vladimir Nabokov, click here. For a brief biography of Luke Jerram, click here. For Stephen H. Blackwell’s home page, click here.
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