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Surrealism, art, and modern science : relativity, quantum mechanics, epistemology
- Title
- Surrealism, art, and modern science : relativity, quantum mechanics, epistemology / Gavin Parkinson.
- Author
- Parkinson, Gavin.
- Publication
- New Haven : Yale University Press, c2008.
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Details
- Description
- viii, 294 p. : ill. (chiefly col.); 27 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-281) and index.
- Contents
- Modern physics and its philosophy: the reception in France -- Relativity and epistemology: Andre Breton and Gaston Bachelard -- Epistemology of physics and politics: Gaston Bachelard and surrealism -- Astrophysics and mysticism: Georges Bataille and Arthur Eddington -- Quantum mechanics and particle physics: Matta, Wolfgang Paalen, Max Ernst -- Relativity and the fourth dimension: Salvador Dali and Roger Caillois -- Coda: nuclear physics and the cold war: surrealism and Salvador Dali.
- Call Number
- JQZ 12-2562
- ISBN
- 9780300098877 (alk. paper)
- 0300098871 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007025368
- OCLC
- 145396571
- Author
- Parkinson, Gavin.
- Title
- Surrealism, art, and modern science : relativity, quantum mechanics, epistemology / Gavin Parkinson.
- Imprint
- New Haven : Yale University Press, c2008.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-281) and index.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- JQZ 12-2562