Art and knowledge after 1900

This ground-breaking new history of modern art explores the relationship between art and knowledge from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day. Each chapter examines artistic responses to a particular discipline of knowledge from quantum theory and theosophy to cybernetics and ethnic futurisms. The authors argue that art's incursion into other intellectual disciplines is a defining characteristic of both modernism and postmodernism. Throughout the volume poses a series of larger questions: is art a source of knowledge? If so what kind of knowledge? And ultimately can it contribute to our understanding of the world in ways that thinkers from other fields should take seriously?