Architectures of Time: Toward a Theory of the Event in Modernist Culture

by Sanford Kwinter

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An exploration of twentieth-century conceptions of time and their relation to artistic form.

In Architectures of Time, Sanford Kwinter offers a critical guide to the modern history of time and to the interplay between the physical sciences and the arts. Tracing the transformation of twentieth-century epistemology to the rise of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, Kwinter explains how the demise of the concept of absolute time,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0262611813

ISBN13:9780262611817

Release Date:September 2002

Publisher:MIT Press

Length:252 Pages

Weight:0.91 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Age Range:18 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

Related Subjects

Architecture Arts, Music & Photography Humanities Metaphysics Philosophy Politics & Social Sciences Reference

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