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Title: Great Topic, Poor Product
Review: I loved the idea of the book so much I couldn't wait to get it home from the bookstore. But like other reviewers the treatment of physics and art quickly eroded my esteem for the book.But what frustrated me the most was how any and every theme in art that Shlain happens across can do nothing but prove his thesis: An artist paints something completely still and it represents time near the speed of light, another something that moves and it represents something else at the speed of light, an artist paints elongated forms and the same thing, shortened forms and you get length contraction.In short, there isn't anything artists COULD HAVE painted that Shlain couldn't have somehow connected to relativity of quantum theory.The book remains curiously novel, and it earns it's one star if only because I like it when people explain art to me so I can understand it. But no doubt there are better sources for that.
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