The fourth dimension and non-Euclidean geometry in modern art - Henderson, Linda Dalrymple 1948- (London, England The MIT Press, 2013)
Reintroduction --View from the twenty-first century -- Augmenting a 1983 history of the fourth dimension in culture and art (1900-1950) -- X-rays and ether physics as the context for the "fourth dimension" -- Stuart Davis and four-dimensional space-time in the era of Einstein -- The fourth dimension 1950-2000: an overview -- "Keepers of the flame" of the fourth dimension: László Moholy-Nagy, Marcel Duchanmp, and Buckminster Fuller -- Popular literature on the fourth dimension in the 1950s-1960s , including the writings of Martin Gardner -- American artists' responses to the spatial fourth dimension in the 1960s: Robert Smithson and the Park Place Gallery Group -- Vehicles for the spatial fourth dimension in the 1970s and 1980s: expanded cinema and new media; computer graphics and string theory -- The 1970s through the 1990s: the four-dimensional art of Tony Robbin -- The 1990s: from hyperspace to cyberspace and Marco Novak's digital architecture; new developments in string theory -- Concluding thoughts -- Introduction -- 1. The Nineteenth-Century background -- Non-Euclidean geometry -- The geometry of n dimensions -- The rise of popular interest in the new geometries -- 2. Cubism and the new geometries -- Paris 1900-1912: the fourth dimension and non-Euclidean geometry in popular literature -- The visual tradition of "the fourth dimension -- Chronology of events -- The fourth dimension and non-Euclidean geometry in Cubist theory and practice -- An alternative view among the Cubists: the Theosophist Kupka -- Boccioni's Italian futurist critique of Cubism's fourth dimension -- 3. Marcel Duchamp and the new geometries -- Duchamp's introduction to n-dimensional and non-Euclidean geometry -- The large glass -- The notes in A l'infinitif -- Later works -- 4. The fourth dimension and non-Euclidean Geometry in America -- Max Weber -- Gelett Burgess -- Claude Bragdon -- New York 1913 and the Armony Show -- Wartime New York: Duchamp and the Arensberg Circle -- The 1920s -- 5. Transcending the present: the fourth dimension in the philosophy of Ouspensky and in Russian futurism and suprematism -- The secondary role of non-Euclidean geometry and relativity theory before the revolution -- Hyperspace philosophy in Russia: Peter Demianovich Ouspensky -- Early Russian futurism and Larionov's Rayonism -- The fourth dimension in Russian futurist philosophy: Matyushin and Kruchenykh -- The fourth dimension in the art of Malevich -- The 1920s: El Lissitzky and others -- 6. The new geometries during World War I and the postwar period in France and Holland: reevaluation and transformation -- The wartime debate: Severini and Ozenfant -- Early De Stijl and the fourth dimension -- The popularization of the theory of relativity in France -- Van Doesburg's pursuit of an art for the world of space-time -- Art and relativity in the 1920s: an overview -- Conclusion: The new geometries in art and theory 1900-1930 -- The fourth dimension and non-Euclidean geometry in art and theory since 1930 -- Appendix A: The question of Cubism and relativity -- Appendix B: American articles popularizing the new geometries, 1877-1920 -- Appendix C: Of the book by Gleizes and Metzinger Du Cubisme.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 657-697) and index.
Keywords: Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Themes, motives; Fourth dimension; Geometry in art