The New York Times
November 23, 2004
The Face of Nature Changes as Art and Science Evolve
By CARL ZIMMER

Artists and scientists, so the story goes, glare at each other across a cultural divide. The scientist coldly hacks nature into pieces. The artist is unwilling to do the hard work necessary to understand how the world works.

This story is mostly fiction, as the work of the printmaker Joseph Scheer makes abundantly clear.

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