num_pages: 564
description: The concept of the fourth dimension has had a liberating effect on artists in nearly every important movement, from French cubism to Surrealism. The artistic advocates for non-Euclidean geometry were fewer, but were also inspired by a new freedom from established artistic laws. Challenging art historians who attribute these concerns with new concepts of space to the influence of relativity theory, Linda Dalrymple Henderson finds their source in the widespread contemporary interest in spaces beyond immediate sensory perception - a fascination that had extensive cultural consequences. As a prelude to her analysis of mdoern art in France, Italy, Russia, Holland, and America, the author provides a history of the popularization of the n-dimensional and non-Euclidean geometries during the 19th century. In particular, she discusses the writers who developed the philosophical and mystical implications of higher spatial dimensions and traces their influence on the major art movements of the period.This lost tradition of spacial concepts, as resurrected and presented by Henderson, supplies a critical and long-neglected element in the history of 20th century art.
language: English
title: The Fourth Dimension And Non-Euclidean Geometry in Modern Art
titlecomplete: The Fourth Dimension And Non-Euclidean Geometry in Modern Art
genres: Geometry, Science, Art History, Mathematics, Nonfiction, Art
ratings_count: 33
publisher: Princeton University Press