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Dimensionism : modern art in the age of Einstein

Title
Dimensionism : modern art in the age of Einstein / edited by Vanja V. Malloy.
Publication
Amherst, Massachusetts : Mead Art Museum, Amherst College ; Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2018]

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Additional Authors
  • Malloy, Vanja
  • Tamkó Sirató, Károly, 1905-1980.
  • Mead Art Museum (Amherst College), organizer, host institution
Description
xvi, 310 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm
Summary
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 1936, the Hungarian poet Charles Sirato authored the Dimensionist Manifesto, signaling a new movement that called on artists to transcend "all the old borders and barriers of the arts." The manifesto was the first attempt to systematize the mass of changes that we now call modern art, and was endorsed by an impressive array of artists, including Jean Arp, Alexander Calder, Robert Delaunay, Sonia Delaunay, Cesar Domela, Marcel Duchamp, Wassily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Ben Nicholson, Enrico Prampolini, and Sophie Taeuber-Arp. 'Dimensionism' is the first book in English to explore how these and other "Dimensionists" responded to the scientific breakthroughs of their era. 00Exhibition: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, USA (02.11.2018-03.03.2019) / Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, USA (03.-06.2019).
Subjects
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs.
Note
  • "Published in conjunction with exhibition Dimensions: Modern Art in the Age of Einstein."
  • Includes translation of Károly (Charles) Tamkó Sirató's Dimensionist Manifesto (translated from the French).
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language (note)
  • Includes translation of Károly (Charles) Tamkó Sirató's Dimensionist Manifesto (translated from the French).
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.
Call Number
JQE 18-833
ISBN
  • 9780262038478
  • 0262038471
LCCN
  • 2017058653
  • 40028538385
OCLC
1015264287
Title
Dimensionism : modern art in the age of Einstein / edited by Vanja V. Malloy.
Publisher
Amherst, Massachusetts : Mead Art Museum, Amherst College ; Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2018]
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language
Includes translation of Károly (Charles) Tamkó Sirató's Dimensionist Manifesto (translated from the French).
Chronological Term
1900-1999
Added Author
Malloy, Vanja.
Container of (expression): Tamkó Sirató, Károly, 1905-1980. Manifeste dimensioniste. English.
Mead Art Museum (Amherst College), organizer, host institution.
Other Standard Identifier
40028538385
Research Call Number
JQE 18-833
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