Download or read book Modern Art and Scientific Thought written by John Adkins Richardson and published by Urbana : University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.