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Exploring common themes in modern art, mathematics, and science, including the concept of space, the notion of randomness, and the shape of the cosmos.

This is a book about art--and a book about mathematics and physics. In Lumen Naturae (the title refers to a purely immanent, non-supernatural form of enlightenment), mathematical physicist Matilde Marcolli explores common themes in modern art and modern science--the concept of space, the notion of randomness, the shape of the cosmos, and other puzzles of the universe--while mapping convergences with the work of such artists as Paul Cezanne, Mark Rothko, Sol LeWitt, and Lee Krasner. Her account, focusing on questions she has investigated in her own scientific work, is illustrated by more than two hundred color images of artworks by modern and contemporary artists.

Thus Marcolli finds in still life paintings broad and deep philosophical reflections on space and time, and connects notions of space in mathematics to works by Paul Klee, Salvador Dal, and others. She considers the relation of entropy and art and how notions of entropy have been expressed by such artists as Hans Arp and Fernand Lger; and traces the evolution of randomness as a mode of artistic expression. She analyzes the relation between graphical illustration and scientific text, and offers her own watercolor-decorated mathematical notebooks. Throughout, she balances discussions of science with explorations of art, using one to inform the other. (She employs some formal notation, which can easily be skipped by general readers.) Marcolli is not simply explaining art to scientists and science to artists; she charts unexpected interdependencies that illuminate the universe.

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Lumen Naturae

Visions of the Abstract in Art and Mathematics

Matilde Marcolli

The MIT Press
Cambridge, Massachusetts
London, England

2020 Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data.

Names: Marcolli, Matilde, author.

Title: Lumen naturae: visions of the abstract in art and mathematics / Matilde Marcolli

Other titles: Visions of the abstract in art and mathematics

Description: Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index

Identifiers: LCCN 2019030795 | ISBN 9780262043908 (hardcover) ISBN 9780262358316 (ebook) | ISBN 9780262358323 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Art and science. | Art, ModernThemes, motives. | Space and time in art. | Cosmology in art.

Classification: LCC N72.S3 M37 2020 | DDC 709.04-dc23

LC record available at https:// lccn .loc .gov /2019030795

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Margareta Haverman, Still Life: A Vase of Flowers, 1716

Ori Gersht, Time after Time: Blowup N.3, 2007

Cornelis de Heem, Still Life with Oysters, Lemons and Grapes, ca. 1660

Roy Lichtenstein, Still Life with Oysters, Fish in a Bowl and Book, 1973

Pieter Claesz, Tabletop Still Life, 1625

Pieter Claesz, Still Life with Musical Instruments, 1623

Georges Braques, Still Life with Violin, 1914

Juan Gris, Still Life with Guitar, 1920

Pieter Claesz, Still Life with Skull and Writing Quill, 1628

Pablo Picasso, Still Life, 1945

Max Ernst, Sea Shell, 1928

Adriaen Coorte, Still Life with Seashell, 1698

Adam Bernaert, Vanitas, 1660

Hans Holbein, The Ambassadors(detail), 1533

Umberto Boccioni, Development of a Bottle in Space, 1913, cast 1950

Renato Guttuso, Still Life with Cans, 1966

Pablo Picasso, Still Life, 1947

Fernand Lger, Nature morte aux lments mcaniques, 1918

Giorgio Morandi, Still Life, 19291930

Paul Czanne, Nature morte avec rideau et pichet fleuri, 1899

Henri Matisse, Fruits and Bronze, 1910

Henri Matisse, Still Life with Blue Tablecloth, 1909

Georges Braques,

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