Art and Physics

“Bold and persuasive…solidly researched and gracefully presented…Never before has such material been explored deeply and lucidly enough for non-specialists.”–“San Francisco Chronicle”“Provacative…passionate…[Shlain] is an engaging storyteller, skilled in the use of metaphor, analogy, and even imaginary journeys that at times are poetic.”–“The New York Times Book Review”“In eighteen years as an art critic I have not encountered more provacative insightful writing about art.”–“Seattle Times”“Leonard Shlain’s “Art & Physics “is exquisite food for thought.”–Fritjof Capra, author of “The Tao of Physics”“A tour de force…A brilliant, accessible, and visionary look at the most revolutionary artists and scientists from the Golden Age of Greece to the present.”–“Los Angeles Times Book Review”

Leonard Shlain is Chairman of Laparoscopic Surgery at the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco and is Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco. He is the author of The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image and Sex, Time, and Power: How Women’s Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution. Dr. Shlain lectures internationally and has been featured on The Newshour with Jim Lehrer and NPR. He lives in Mill Valley, California.