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2. Cézanne’s Gravity: “More Einsteinian Than Einstein”
Carol Armstrong
Description: Cézanne’s Gravity
Cézanne’s Gravity
What is an object? What is space? And what is the relation between the two concepts? These are three questions that this chapter shall attempt to address, by looking comparatively at the way Cézanne the artist thought about them and the way Einstein the scientist reasoned about them. My aim is not to...
Author
Carol Armstrong
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2018 by Carol Armstrong
Related print edition pages: pp.53-85
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00292.2
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22231
Chapter subject tags:Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973Still-life painting, French--19th centuryCézanne, Paul, 1839-1906Art and science--France--History--19th centuryCubism--Influence

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2. Cézanne’s Gravity: “More Einsteinian Than Einstein”