Beyond art : a third culture : a comparative study in cultures, art, and science in 20th century Austria and Hungary

Product Description

A new theory of culture presented with a new method achieved by comparing closely the art and science in 20th century Austria and Hungary. Major achievements that have influenced the world like psychoanalysis, abstract art, quantum physics, Gestalt psychology, formal languages, vision theories, and the game theory etc. originated from these countries, and influence the world still today as a result of exile nurtured in the US. A source book with numerous photographs, images and diagrams, it opens up a nearly infinite horizon of knowledge that helps one to understand what is going on in today’s worlds of art and science.

About the Author

PETER WEIBEL, numerous professorships; 1992–95 artistic director of the Ars Electronica, Linz. 1993–99 Austrian commissary for the Biennale, Venice, and artistic director of the Neue Galerie in the Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz. Since 1999 chairman of the ZKM, Karlsruhe, Deutschland.