09 10 03
Opening of the "Fields on Paper" show, works by Jean-Pierre Hébert. After the reception for the Friends of KITP, talk on "The Interplay of Art and Physics: Altering Perceptions of Reality". The talk and the slides for the talk are available on KITP's online pages. Several of these slides come from the current program on Patterns.
After the talk: references, biliography, and links
"Art and Physics: parallel visions in space, time and light" by Leonard
Shlain (Quill, 1991)
Jorge Luis Borges, all the work fictions and non-fictions
"The Fourth Dimension and Non-Euclidian Geometry in Modern Art", by
Linda Henderson (Princeton University Press, 1983)
"Max Bill Retrospektive" (schin kunsthalle frankfurt, 1987)
"Real Spaces: World Art History and the Rise of Western modernism",
by David Summers (Phaidon, 2003)
"Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Techniques of the Old Masters",
by David Hockney
"On the Spiritual in Art" by Wassily Kandinski (1944)
"The Spiritual in Art: abstract painting 1890-1985" by LACMA (Abbeville)
"The Story of Civilization" by Will Durant (Simon & Schuster,
1939)
"The Story of Philosophy: the lives and opinions of the greater philosophers",
by Will Durant (Garden City Publishing Co., 1927)
Umberto Eco, all the work and in particular "The Open Work" (Harvard)
and "The Limits of Interpretation" (Indiana)
"La Valse", by Maurice Ravel (1906-1919)
"Vermeer's Camera" by Philip Steadman
"The Visual Arts Today", by Gyorgi Kepes (Wesleyan University Press,
1960)
"La Vie, Mode d'Emploi" by Georges Perec (Hachette, 1978)
"Vision + Value Series", by Gyorgi Kepes (George Brazillier, New-York,
1966)
"The Voices of Time, a cooperative survey of man's views of time as expressed
by the sciences and by the humanities", edited by J.T. Fraser, (Massachusetts,
1981)
Art & Physics, the Course ppt slides
The Art of Renaissance Science
Bibliographies for Selected Topics
Braque to Bach to Bohr: Physics and the Arts
Conic Sections in Ancient Greece
The Digital Michelangelo Project
"Flatland: a romance of many dimensions" by Edwin A. Abott (1884 )
Four-Space Visualization of 4D Objects
Images of Famous Mathematical Works
The Mathematical Way of Understanding the World: Clocks and Chaos (ppt slides)
Power, Illusion, and the Technology of Perspective in the Renaissance
Perspective as a Geometric Tool that Launched the Renaissance
Non-Euclidian Geometry Resources