The shock of recognition: motifs of modern art and science

"In The Shock of Recognition, Lewis Pyenson uses a method called Historical Complementarity to identify the motif of non-figurative abstraction in modern art and science. He identifies the motif in Picasso's and Einstein's educational environments. He shows how this motif in domestic...

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Main Author: Pyenson, Lewis 1947- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston Brill [2021]
Series:Nuncius series volume 5
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Online Access:DE-188
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Summary:"In The Shock of Recognition, Lewis Pyenson uses a method called Historical Complementarity to identify the motif of non-figurative abstraction in modern art and science. He identifies the motif in Picasso's and Einstein's educational environments. He shows how this motif in domestic furnishing and in urban lighting set the stage for Picasso's and Einstein's professional success before 1914. He applies his method to intellectual life in Argentina, using it to address that nation's focus on an inventory of the natural world until the 1940s, its adoption of non-figurative art and nuclear physics in the middle of the twentieth century, and attention to landscape painting and the wonder of nature at the end of the century"
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 650 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:9789004325739
DOI:10.1163/9789004325739

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