L’imaginaire scientifique du surréalisme : Max Ernst, les objets mathématiques et la géométrie non euclidienne
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1999
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Isabelle Fortuné, « L’imaginaire scientifique du surréalisme : Max Ernst, les objets mathématiques et la géométrie non euclidienne », Histoire de l'art, ID : 10.3406/hista.1999.2841
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Surrealism’s scientific imagery : Max Ernst, mathematical objects and non-euclidean geometry. The surrealists’ interest in the various scientific fields through the theories of the images they generate, arose in the first years of their movement and never failed even up to the post-war period, evolving according to the rediscovery of scientific theories or objects. Max Ernst’s work is particularly representative of science’s appeal in the surrealist milieu. It recurrently appears in various shapes with this artist : diagrams and mathematic equations, rulers and callipers, figures either geometrical or born of cellular biology, cosmological visions... During the thirties, the appropriation of the theories of non-euclidean geometry dominates surrealism’s scientific imagery, together with the rediscovery of mathematical objects. These scientific models, translating mathematical equations in three dimensions, are known through Man Ray’s photographs, and appeared in several surrealist exhibitions. Max Ernst also participated in this collective fancy, by incorporating mathematical objects in his collages and by proposing his personal reading of the theories of non-euclidean geometry.