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Art & Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light (Paperback)

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Art interprets the visible world, physics charts its unseen workings--making the two realms seem completely opposed. But in "Art & Physics, "Leonard Shlain tracks their breakthroughs side by side throughout history to reveal an astonishing correlation of visions.

From teh classical Greek sculptors to Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns, and from Aristotle to Einstein, aritsts have foreshadowed the discoveries of scientists, such as when Money and Cezanne intuited the coming upheaval in physics that Einstein would initiate. In this lively and colorful narrative, Leonard Shlain explores how artistic breakthroughs could have prefigured the visionary insights of physicists on so many occasions throughtout history.

Provacative and original, "Art & Physics "is a seamless integration of the romance of art and the drama of science...and exhilarating history of ideas.




Product Details
ISBN: 9780688123055
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Publication Date: January 1st, 1993
Pages: 480