Treats arts as part of science, from the unified perspective of Science Matters. This book contains three parts: Philosophy and History of Arts; Arts in Action; and, Understanding Arts. It is suitable for both research scholars and lay people. It offers an understanding of the origin and nature of art.

Arts: A Science Matter (L Lam); Philosophy and History of Arts: The Latin ArtesA" and the Origin of Modern ArtsA" (B Hoppe); Science and Art: A Philosophical Perspective (G-S Wu); Neuroarthistory: Reuniting Ancient Traditions in a New Scientific Approach to the Understanding of Art (J Onians); Science and Art in China (B Liu); The Development of Science Theater (I Schneider); Arts in Action: The Silence of Art (C Leiria); Linsen's Art (L Ngai); From Curiosity to Creation: The Art Work of Holly Lane (H Lane); ChemArt and BioArt (M Burguete); Making Movies and Making Physics (H Tsui & L Lam); A Journey along the Borderland: A Critical Approach to Artificial Intelligence-Based Literary Practice (J-C Zhu & D F Harrell); Understanding Arts: On the Origin of Literary Narrative and Its Relation to Adaptation (P Hogan); Emotion, Cognition and Aesthetic Form in Vishal Bhardwaj's Omkara and Shakespeare's Othello (L Hogan); Danmei Novels and Rotten Women (T-T Wang); Objects in Art and Science (N Sanitt); Su Dong-Po's Bamboo and Paul Cezanne's Apple (L Lam & L-M Qiu).