Our guest on this episode is Linda Dalrymple Henderson, whose book The Fourth Dimension and Non-Euclidean Geometry in Modern Art was re-issued in a new edition by MIT Press in 2013.

In the podcast:

How the discovery of X-rays changed the history of art (1:45) — The invisible world, and the artist as visionary (3:45) — Finding a reality beyond what can be seen with the naked eye (4:45) — In the early 20th century, science and spiritualism were not as antithetical as they might later seem (6:45) — Malevich and Kandinsky were avid readers of both current scientific literature, and occult literature, which was widely translated across Europe (in French, German, and Russian) (10:15)

Henri Bergson, Marcel Duchamp’s Large Glass, and optical vs. intellectual art (15:45) — The fourth dimension, and the effect of Einstein’s discoveries upon a new generation of artists (20:15) — The revival of interest in Duchamp in the 1950s and 1960s (23:00) — Relativity in Siegfried Giedion’s Space, Time and Architecture (25:45) —

Reimagining Space: The Park Place Gallery Group in 1960s New York (27:00) — Mark Di Suvero, kinetic art, and non-Euclidean geometry (29:30) — Terry Riley, Steve Reich, William Blake, Aldous Huxley, and transcendental consciousness (32:00) — From New York to Colorado, and a Buckminster Fuller dome (35:30) — Mark Di Suvero vs. Donald Judd on anthropomorphism (37:45)