Dimensionism
Modern Art in the Age of Einstein
- Hardcover
344 pages
- Release Date
9 October 2018
Summary
The first book to document how artists of the early twentieth century responded to new scientific conceptions of reality.In the early twentieth century, influenced by advances in science that included Einstein’s theory of relativity and newly powerful microscopic and telescopic lenses, artists were inspired to expand their art-to capture a new metareality that went beyond human perception into unseen dimensions. In 1936, the Hungarian poet Charles Sirat authored the Dimensionist Manifesto, s…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262038478 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262038471 |
| Author: | Vanja V. Malloy, David Little |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 344 |
| Release Date: | 9 October 2018 |
| Weight: | 1.15kg |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 178mm |
| Series: | Dimensionism |
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Dimensionism, the companion catalogue to an exhibition of the same name produced by Amherst College’s Mead Art Museum, provides a comprehensive assessment of an important but overlooked effort to reconcile into a ‘single common law’ the ideals of modernist art and a reality of relativity and uncertainty as described in quantum physics.
—CHOICEAbout The Author
Vanja V. Malloy
Vanja V. Malloy is Curator of American Art at Amherst College’s Mead Art Museum. She was previously Chester Dale Fellow in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.Linda Dalrymple Henderson is David Bruton, Jr., Centennial Professor in Art History and Regents Outstanding Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Duchamp in Context- Science and Technology in the Large Glass and Related Works and Reimagining Space- The Park Place Gallery Group in 1960s New York and coeditor of From Energy to Information- Representation in Science and Technology, Art, and Literature.
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