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| | Einstein, Picasso:
Space, Time, and the Beauty That Causes Havoc
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| | by Arthur I. Miller
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ZIN Product Number: 10564104
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 Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465018599
Release Date: Jan 3, 2001
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The most important scientist of the twentieth century, and its most important artist, had their periods of greatest creativity almost simultaneously and in remarkably similar circumstances.
This fascinating parallel biography of Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso as young men examines their greatest works—Einstein's special theory of relativity and Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignin, the painting that brought art into the twentieth century. Miller shows how these breakthroughs arose not only from within their respective fields, but from larger currents in the intellectual culture of the times: specifically, the rise of photography for Picasso, various well-known practical problems in the design of electric dynamos and the regularization of railroad timetables for Einstein, and for both the increasingly sophisticated ideas of space, time and invisible forces that made up the cutting-edge science of the day. Ultimately, Miller shows how Einstein and Picasso, in a deep and important sense, were both working on the same problem.
About the Author:
Arthur I. Miller is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, Department of Science & Technology Studies, University College London. He lives in London, England.
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| | | |  | | | | Acknowledgments | ix | | 1 | Two Worlds as One | 1 | | 2 | A Good-Looking Bootblack | 9 | | 3 | The Kind of Male Beauty That Caused Such Havoc | 41 | | 4 | How Picasso Discovered Les Demoiselles d'Avignon | 85 | | 5 | Braque and Picasso Explore Space | 127 | | Intermezzo | 173 | | 6 | The Annus Mirabilis: How Einstein Discovered Relativity | 179 | | 7 | I Really Would Not Have Thought Einstein Capable of That! | 215 | | 8 | Creativity in Art and Science | 237 | | Notes | 269 | | Bibliography | 323 | | Photo Credits | 341 | | Index | 345 |
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