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Physics and the Modernist Avant-Garde Quantum Modernisms and Modernist Relativities

Eames, Rachel Fountain
Innbundet / 2023 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781350299825
Publisert
2023-02-09
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
272

Forfatter
Eames, Rachel Fountain

Om bidragsyterne

Rachel Fountain Eames is an academic and creative writer who holds a PhD from the University of Birmingham, UK, as has published work on 19th- and 20th-century literature, modern visual art, and science. She can be found on Twitter @rfeames.

Physics and the Modernist Avant-Garde Quantum Modernisms and Modernist Relativities

Eames, Rachel Fountain
Innbundet / 2023 / Engelsk
Eames, Rachel Fountain
Innbundet / 2023 / Engelsk
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In a book that manages to provide lucid explanations of complex physics concepts, Eames traces a wide range of different paths by which the developments in physics and art in the early twentieth century influenced each other. Filled to the brim with entertaining anecdotes about the various authors and their shocking lives, the text is at its strongest in its ability to highlight the tangential roads of influence between various art movements and developments in physics.

The Modernist Review

Developing a reading of modernist poetics centred on the three-way relationship between literature, modern physics and avant-garde art movements, this book focuses on four key poets – William Carlos Williams, Mina Loy, the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven and Wallace Stevens – whose lives crossed paths in 20th-century New York. This book explores how modernist art movements have shaped these writers’ thinking about physics in relation to their work, demonstrating how science’s new ideas about measurement and how to visualize material reality provoked innovative poetic forms and images. From Einstein’s visit to New York City in 1921 to the impact of the atomic bomb, the author traces the flow of ideas about physics through culture, linking the new physics with modern approaches to art found in Cubism, Futurism, Dada and Surrealism.
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Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Poetry and Physics The Age of Revolutions: An Overview of Physics in the Period 1905-1945 Relativity Theory The Emergence of Quanta Visualizing the Atom The Quantum Revolution The New York Avant-Garde Four New York Poets Relative Measure: William Carlos Williams’s Einsteinian Poetics Cubist Poetics in Spring and All (1923) Revising Relativity: The Second Version of ‘St Francis Einstein of the Daffodils’ ‘The only reality that we can know is MEASURE’: Einstein in Paterson Mina Loy’s Energy Physics Parody Physics: Loy’s Futurist Satires Physics without Parody: ‘Parturition’ (1914) Loy’s Atomic Spiritualism The Man of Electric Vitality: Insel (1933-1936) Back to the Bomb: Rethinking Atomic Dissolution the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven’s Physical Systems Dada’s Cult of Indeterminacy Smashing Duchamp’s Glass: The Baroness Against the Dada Scientists Quantum Dissolution in Weimar Berlin ‘Life is science’: Order Through Science in the Baroness’s Later Poetry The Quantum Poetics of Wallace Stevens and Max Planck The Visualizability Question and the Poetic Image The Image in Superposition: Stevens and Surrealism Stevens’s Phantom Problem ‘Invisible or visible or both’: An Abstracted Poetics Conclusion APPENDIX 1 – Parallel Timeline Bibliography
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An interdisciplinary exploration of the cultural and artistic reception of the 'new physics' as it emerged through the writing and visual art of avant-gardes in early 20th-century New York.
Explorations in Science and Literature considers the significance of literature from within a scientific worldview, and brings the insights of literary study to bear on current science. Examining subjects like metaphor, satire, or Romanticism with scientific engagement as a primary focus, volumes in this series will range across scientific disciplines -- such as Climate Change, Quantum Mechanics, and Cosmology -- that have left a footprint on our cultural awareness. Editorial board: Suzie Currie, Professor of Biology, Acadia University, Nova Scotia, Canada Barri J. Gold, Professor of English, Muhlenberg College, Pennsylvania, USA Piers J. Hale, Professor in the History of Science, University of Oklahoma, USA Klaus Mecke, Professor of Theoretical Physics, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Charlotte Sleigh, Professor of Science Humanities, University of Kent, UK Arya Thampuran, Assistant Professor in Black Health and the Humanities, Durham University, UK Emil Toescu, Research Professor, Institute of Transdisciplinary Discoveries, University of Pécs, Hungary Martin Willis, Professor of English Literature, University of Cardiff, UK
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In a book that manages to provide lucid explanations of complex physics concepts, Eames traces a wide range of different paths by which the developments in physics and art in the early twentieth century influenced each other. Filled to the brim with entertaining anecdotes about the various authors and their shocking lives, the text is at its strongest in its ability to highlight the tangential roads of influence between various art movements and developments in physics.

The Modernist Review

Developing a reading of modernist poetics centred on the three-way relationship between literature, modern physics and avant-garde art movements, this book focuses on four key poets – William Carlos Williams, Mina Loy, the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven and Wallace Stevens – whose lives crossed paths in 20th-century New York. This book explores how modernist art movements have shaped these writers’ thinking about physics in relation to their work, demonstrating how science’s new ideas about measurement and how to visualize material reality provoked innovative poetic forms and images. From Einstein’s visit to New York City in 1921 to the impact of the atomic bomb, the author traces the flow of ideas about physics through culture, linking the new physics with modern approaches to art found in Cubism, Futurism, Dada and Surrealism.
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Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Poetry and Physics The Age of Revolutions: An Overview of Physics in the Period 1905-1945 Relativity Theory The Emergence of Quanta Visualizing the Atom The Quantum Revolution The New York Avant-Garde Four New York Poets Relative Measure: William Carlos Williams’s Einsteinian Poetics Cubist Poetics in Spring and All (1923) Revising Relativity: The Second Version of ‘St Francis Einstein of the Daffodils’ ‘The only reality that we can know is MEASURE’: Einstein in Paterson Mina Loy’s Energy Physics Parody Physics: Loy’s Futurist Satires Physics without Parody: ‘Parturition’ (1914) Loy’s Atomic Spiritualism The Man of Electric Vitality: Insel (1933-1936) Back to the Bomb: Rethinking Atomic Dissolution the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven’s Physical Systems Dada’s Cult of Indeterminacy Smashing Duchamp’s Glass: The Baroness Against the Dada Scientists Quantum Dissolution in Weimar Berlin ‘Life is science’: Order Through Science in the Baroness’s Later Poetry The Quantum Poetics of Wallace Stevens and Max Planck The Visualizability Question and the Poetic Image The Image in Superposition: Stevens and Surrealism Stevens’s Phantom Problem ‘Invisible or visible or both’: An Abstracted Poetics Conclusion APPENDIX 1 – Parallel Timeline Bibliography
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An interdisciplinary exploration of the cultural and artistic reception of the 'new physics' as it emerged through the writing and visual art of avant-gardes in early 20th-century New York.
Explorations in Science and Literature considers the significance of literature from within a scientific worldview, and brings the insights of literary study to bear on current science. Examining subjects like metaphor, satire, or Romanticism with scientific engagement as a primary focus, volumes in this series will range across scientific disciplines -- such as Climate Change, Quantum Mechanics, and Cosmology -- that have left a footprint on our cultural awareness. Editorial board: Suzie Currie, Professor of Biology, Acadia University, Nova Scotia, Canada Barri J. Gold, Professor of English, Muhlenberg College, Pennsylvania, USA Piers J. Hale, Professor in the History of Science, University of Oklahoma, USA Klaus Mecke, Professor of Theoretical Physics, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Charlotte Sleigh, Professor of Science Humanities, University of Kent, UK Arya Thampuran, Assistant Professor in Black Health and the Humanities, Durham University, UK Emil Toescu, Research Professor, Institute of Transdisciplinary Discoveries, University of Pécs, Hungary Martin Willis, Professor of English Literature, University of Cardiff, UK
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781350299825
Publisert
2023-02-09
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
272

Forfatter
Eames, Rachel Fountain

Om bidragsyterne

Rachel Fountain Eames is an academic and creative writer who holds a PhD from the University of Birmingham, UK, as has published work on 19th- and 20th-century literature, modern visual art, and science. She can be found on Twitter @rfeames.

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