Surrealism, art, and modern science
Subtitle: relativity, quantum mechanics, epistemology
By: Gavin Parkinson.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780300098877
Subjects: Surrealism -- France; Arts, Modern -- France -- 20th century; Physics and the arts -- France -- History -- 20th century; Physics -- Philosophy -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Modern physics and its philosophy: the reception in France; title: Relativity and epistemology: Andre Breton and Gaston Bachelard; title: Epistemology of physics and politics: Gaston Bachelard and surrealism; title: Astrophysics and mysticism: Georges Bataille and Arthur Eddington; title: Quantum mechanics and particle physics: Matta, Wolfgang Paalen, Max Ernst; title: Relativity and the fourth dimension: Salvador Dali and Roger Caillois; title: Coda: nuclear physics and the cold war: surrealism and Salvador Dali.