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Author Shlain, Leonard.

Title Art & physics : parallel visions in space, time, and light / Leonard Shlain
Edition First edition
Published New York : Morrow, [1991]
©1991

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Description 480 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents Illusion / reality -- Sacred / profane -- Stationary perspective / absolute rest -- Conic sections / elliptical orbits -- Artist-scientist / mystic-physicist -- Rationality / irrationality -- Modern art / Newton triumphant -- Einstein / space, time, and light -- Naive art / nonlinear time -- Primitive art / non-Euclidean space -- East / west -- Fauvism / light -- Cubism / space -- Futurism / time -- Surrealism / relativistic distortion -- Abstract art / imageless physics -- Happenings / events -- Music / art / physics -- Literary forms / physics formulas -- Newton's apples / Cezanne's apples -- Spacetime / mass-energy -- Weightless forms / gravitational forces -- Sculptural mass / curved spacetime -- I / we -- Right / left -- Space / time -- Dionysus / Apollo -- Art / physics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 455-462) and index
Subject Art -- Philosophy.
Light in art.
Light.
Physics -- Influence.
Space (Art)
Space and time.
Time in art.
LC no. 91014655
ISBN 0688097529 (acid-free paper)
Other Titles Art and physics
Art and physics