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• Title:The fourth dimension and non-Euclidean geometry in modern art / Linda Dalrymple Henderson.
  
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• Author/Creator:Henderson, Linda Dalrymple, 1948-
  
• Published/Created:Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2013]
  

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  • Call Number: N6490 .H44 2013
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:Art, Modern--20th century--Themes, motives.
  Fourth dimension.
  Geometry in art.
  
• Edition:Revised edition.
  
• Description:xxvii, 729 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  
• Series:Leonardo book series.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
  
• ISBN:9780262582445 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  0262582449 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  
• Contents: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: László́ 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 propularizing the new geometries, 1877-1920
  Appendix C: Of the book by Gleizes and Metzinger Du Cubisme.