Science and Art

[Razgovory]

I'm not sure what you mean.  Certainly modern novels refer to science and scientific disciplines.

Like? The only one that springs to mind is that Ian McEwan novel about the brain surgeon (which I've not read).

Edit: And refer to is very different to addressing or dealing with a topic as part of the whole novel.

Well there is an entire genre that is concerned with science in fiction, curiously called "science fiction".  Some of these are considered serious literature, like some of the stuff that Malthus's aunt writes.  There is also Thomas Pynchon who I can't make heads or tales of, but was extremely concerned with rocketry.  I seem to recall a William Golding novel about Neanderthals.

[Gups]

There's loads of science in modern fiction -  way more than in the C19th (you'll find very little science in Dickens, Thackeray, Tolstoy, Austen or the Brontes). Even ignoring sci-fi and crossover writers such as Neal Stephenson, you have other popular genres such a crime fiction. Even in literary fiction - McEwan has several such novels (e.g. Enduring Love), Margaratet Atwood dystopias explore genetics as does Ishiguro in When we Were Orphans and Mitchell in parts of Cloud Atlas. "C" by Tom McCarthy deals with wireless communication, AS Byatt often deals explicitly with the links between science and art e.g. the technology of pottery in the Childrens Book. I'm sure there are numerous others which I'm foregtting