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The most important scientist of the twentieth
century and the most important artist had their periods of greatest creativity
almost simultaneously and in remarkably similar circumstances. This fascinating
parallel biography of Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso as young men examines
their greatest creations-Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon and Einstein's
special theory of relativity. Miller shows how these breakthroughs arose not
only from within their respective fields but from larger currents in the
intellectual culture of the times. Ultimately, Miller shows how Einstein and
Picasso, in a deep and important sense, were both working on the same problem.
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In recent decades, an exciting new art movement
has emerged in which artists utilize and illuminate the latest advances in
science. Some of their provocative creations-a live rabbit implanted with the
fluorescent gene of a jellyfish, a gigantic glass-and-chrome sculpture of the
Big Bang (pictured on the cover)-can be seen in traditional art museums and
magazines, while others are being made by leading designers at Pixar, Google's
Creative Lab, and the MIT Media Lab. In Colliding Worlds, Arthur I. Miller
takes readers on a wild journey to explore this new frontier. Miller, the
author of Einstein, Picasso and other celebrated books on science and
creativity, traces the movement from its seeds a century ago-when Einstein's
theory of relativity helped shape the thinking of the Cubists-to its flowering
today. Through interviews with innovative thinkers and artists across
disciplines, Miller shows with verve and clarity how discoveries in
biotechnology, cosmology, quantum physics, and beyond are animating the work of
designers like Neri Oxman, musicians like David Toop, and the
artists-in-residence at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. From NanoArt to Big Data,
Miller reveals the extraordinary possibilities when art and science collide.
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