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Nature 453, 983-984 (19 June 2008) | doi:10.1038/453983a; Published online 18 June 2008
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Quantum weirdness and surrealism
Philip Ball1
Abstract
A joint exploration of early modern physics and the surreal art movement shows these twentieth-century revolutions had more in common than we thought, explains Philip Ball.
BOOK REVIEWED-Surrealism, Art and Modern Science
by Gavin Parkinson
Yale University Press: 2008. 294 pp. $60.00
Surrealist artists working in the early twentieth century, including André Breton, Max Ernst, Man Ray and Salvador Dalí, disorientated their audiences using odd, ambiguous juxtapositions and distortions of objects and images. Around the same time, relativity and quantum theory unsettled scientists with notions of plastic time and space, multiple truths and challenges to causality.
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