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

by Sanford Kwinter

Book Overview

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