Quantum weirdness and surrealism

摘要

Surrealist artists working in the early twentieth century, including Andre Breton, Max Ernst, Man Ray and Salvador Dali, 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.rnSurrealism, Art and Modern Science shows the links are explicit, not a superficial analogy applied in retrospect. The Surrealist artists referred repeatedly to relativity and quantum mechanics in their writings. Dali intended his drooping watches to allude to distorted space-time, describing them as a "soft Camembert of time and space". Gavin Parkinsons study removes any contention about the connection between surrealism and physics, and makes you wonder why it was not made before.