Art and Physics Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light

Name: Art and Physics Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light
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ISBN: 9780061227974

ISBN-10: 0061227978

ISBN-13: 9780061227974

Edition: 2007

Authors: Leonard Shlain

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Art interprets the visible world. Physics charts its unseen workings. The two realms seem completely opposed. But consider that both strive to reveal truths for which there are no wordswith physicists using the language of mathematics and artists using visual images. In Art & Physics, Leonard Shlain tracks their breakthroughs side by side throughout history to reveal an astonishing correlation of visions. From the classical Greek sculptors to Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns, and from Aristotle to Einstein, artists have foreshadowed the discoveries of scientists, such as when Monet and Cezanne intuited the coming upheaval in physics that Einstein would initiate. In this lively and colorful…

Book details

List price: $16.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 2/27/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.09" long x 1.34" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English