BEST PDF The Fourth Dimension and Non-Euclidean

<b>The long-awaited new edition of a groundbreaking work on the impact of alternative concepts of space on modern art.</b><br /><br />In this groundbreaking study, first published in 1983 and unavailable for over a decade, Linda Dalrymple Henderson demonstrates that two concepts of space beyond immediate perception--the curved spaces of non-Euclidean geometry and, most important, a higher, fourth dimension of space--were central to the development of modern art. The possibility of a spatial fourth dimension suggested that our world might be merely a shadow or section of a higher dimensional existence. That iconoclastic idea encouraged radical innovation by a variety of early twentieth-century artists, ranging from French Cubists, Italian Futurists, and Marcel Duchamp, to Max Weber, Kazimir Malevich, and the artists of De Stijl and Surrealism.<br /><br />In an extensive new Reintroduction, Henderson surveys the impact of interest in higher dimensions of space in art and culture from the