Myths of the moon in the arts and sciences 50 years after the first manned landingThe moon has long furnished humankind with an artistic icon an image of longing and object of scientific inquiry. Encompassing art film literature architecture design natural history and historical objects and published on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the first manned landing July 20 1969 The Moon surveys the iconography of the moon from Romantic landscape paintings to spaceage art. It takes the 1969 landing as a thematic fulcrum and a culmination of the deeprooted cultural conceptions invested in the space race in the 1960s from David Bowie to Disney.The book also accounts for the science of the moon throughout the ages from Galileo to NASA addressing the many lunar myths that have existed throughout time.