Art & Physics Shlain Leonard
Art & Physics Shlain Leonard Art interprets the visible world. The two realms seem completely opposed. Physics charts its unseen workings. In Art & Physics, Leonard Shlain tracks their breakthroughs…
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Art & Physics Shlain Leonard
Art interprets the visible world. The two realms seem completely opposed. Physics charts its unseen workings.
In Art & Physics, Leonard Shlain tracks their breakthroughs side by side throughout history to reveal an astonishing correlation of visions. But consider that both strive to reveal truths for which there are no words--with physicists using the language of mathematics and artists using visual images. From the classical Greek sculptors to Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns, and from Aristotle to Einstein, artists have foreshadowed the discoveries of scientists, such as when Monet 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 throughout history. Provicative and original, Art &