Art and Physics: Parallel Visions In Space, Time, And Light by Leonard Shlain

Art and Physics: Parallel Visions In Space, Time, And Light by Leonard Shlain

Art interprets the visible world. Physics charts its unseen workings. The two realms seem completely opposed. But consider that both strive to reveal truths for which there are no words--with physicists using the language of mathematics and artists using visual images. In Art & Physics, Leonard Shlain tracks their breakthroughs side by side throughout history to reveal an astonishing correlation of visions. From the classical Greek sculptors to Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns, and from Aristotle to Einstein, artists have foreshadowed the discoveries of scientists, such as when Monet and Cezanne intuited the coming upheaval in physics that Einstein would initiate. In this lively and colorful narrative, Leonard Shlain explores how artistic breakthroughs could have prefigured the visionary insights of physicists on so many occasions throughout history. Provicative and original, Art & Physics is a seamless integration of the romance of art and the drama of science--and an exhilarating history of ideas.

Leonard Shlain was a surgeon, inventor, and successful author. Shlain is a bestselling author who has been praised by artists, scientists, philosophers, anthropologists, and educators for his three books: Art & Physics, Alphabet vs. Sex, Time, and Power: The Goddess He gave remarkable visual presentations based on his books at Harvard, the New York Museum of Modern Art, CERN, Los Alamos, the Florence Academy of Art, and the European Council of Ministers, among other places. Al Gore, Norman Lear, and singer Bjork are among his admirers.

Shlain died of brain cancer in May 2009, at the age of 71, shortly after finishing this work. His legacy lives on through his children, Kimberly Brooks, an artist and founding editor of the Huffington Post's Arts and Science Section, Jordan Shlain, a doctor and creator of Healthloop.com, and Tiffany Shlain, a filmmaker, founder of The Webby Awards, and director of the Sundance documentary, Connected, about the concepts in Leonardo's Brain, as well as Leonar Shlain, a filmmaker, founder of The Webby Awards, and Tiffany Shla Visit www.leonardshlain.com for more information.