Art and Knowledge After 1900: Interactions Between Modern Art and Thought

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This ground-breaking new history of modern art explores the relationship between art and knowledge from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day. Each chapter examines artistic responses to a particular discipline of knowledge, from quantum theory and theosophy to cybernetics and ethnic futurisms. The authors argue that arts incursion into other intellectual disciplines is a defining characteristic of both modernism and postmodernism. Throughout, the volume poses a series of larger questions: is art a source of knowledge If so, what kind of knowledge And, ultimately, can it contribute to our understanding of the world in ways that thinkers from other fields should take seriously

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James Fox is Director of Studies in History of Art at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge

Vid Simoniti is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Liverpool