Dimensionism : modern art in the age of Einstein / edited by Vanja V. Malloy.

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 19...

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Corporate Author: Mead Art Museum (Amherst College) (Organizer, Host institution)
Other Authors: Malloy, Vanja
Tamkó Sirató, Károly, 1905-1980
Language:English
Language of the Original:
French
Published: Amherst, Massachusetts : Cambridge, Massachusetts : Mead Art Museum, Amherst College ; The MIT Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Tamkó Sirató, Károly, > 1905-1980. > Manifeste dimensioniste > Exhibitions.
Art and science > Exhibitions.
Art, Modern > 20th century > Themes, motives > Exhibitions.
Art and science.
Art, Modern > Themes, motives.
1900-1999
Exhibition catalogs.
Genre:
Exhibitions.
Exhibition catalogs.
Physical Description:xvi, 310 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Charles Sirató and the Dimensionist manifesto / Oliver A.I. Botar
  • The Dimensionist manifesto and the multivalent fourth dimension in 1936 : Sirató, Delaunay, Duchamp, Kandinsky, and Prampolini / Linda Dalrymple Henderson
  • From macrocosm to microcosm : examining the role of modern science in American art / Vanja V. Malloy
  • Revolutions in art and science : Cubism, quantum mechanics, and art history / Gavin Parkinson.