Modern Art and Scientific Thought by Richardson, John Adkins - 1972

Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1972. Hardcover. First edition. Near Fine with a bump to the bottom of the text block resulting in tiny creases and tears to three pages in a Near Fine dj with sunning to the spine and a little wear at the edges. Blue cloth bound hardback with gilt lettering to the spine in a dust jacket. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, BOXED. 191 pages; 53 half-page b&w reproductions; 7.5 x 10 inches. Bibliography. Index. The author argues that the ideational relationships between the arts and sciences that many critics and historians attest to are delusional. He proposes new and surprising theories that encompass Cubism and the logics of Russell, Hilbert, and Brouwer; Seurat and new notions of reality; the common ground upon which The Bauhaus, Expressionism, Nazism, and Mannheim's Sociology of Knowledge stand on; Cezanne and non-Euclidean geometries.