References Relating to Art

N. Baldwin. Man Ray: American Artist. Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., New York, 1988.

Contains a few notes of interest about Man Rays series Mathematical Objects and Shakespearian Equations.

A. Barlow. "Barbara Hepworth and Science" pp. 95-107 in in Barabara Hepworth Reconsidered edited by D. Thistlewood. Liverpool University Press, 1996.

Discusses Barbara Hepworth's interest in science (including mathematics) and her thoughts on the relationship between science and art.

Cahiers d'art 1936 issue has the series of Man Ray photos, "Mathematical Objects"

I have a copy of this, but have not tranlated it from French yet.

N. Gabo. ``The Constructive Idea in Art,'' Circle: International Survey of Constructive Art, J.L. Martin, B. Nicholson, N. Gabo, eds. Faber and Faber, Ltd., London, 1937.

M. Gale and C. Stevens. Barbara Hepworth: Works at the Tate Gallery Collection and the Barbara Hepworth Museum St. Ives. Tate Gallery Publishing, London, 1999.

A catalogue of 76 pieces, with a detailed discussion of each piece. Includes the following works that seems to draw some inspiration from mathematics: Sculture with Colour (Deep Blue and Red) (1940), Drawing for Sculpture with Color (1941), Oval Sculpture No. 2, Pelagos (1946), Wave (1943-4), Involute II (1956), Orpheus (1956, Stringed Figure (1956).

M. Hammer, C. Lodder. Constructing Modernity: the Art and Career of Naum Gabo. Yale University Press, London, 2000.

Has lots of information on the influence of mathematical models on Gabo.

M. Hammer, C. Lodder. "Hepworth and Gabo: a Constructivist Dialogue" pp. 109-133 in Barabara Hepworth Reconsidered edited by D. Thistlewood. Liverpool University Press, 1996.

Discusses the influences that Barabara Hepworth and Naum Gabo had on each others. There is a lengthly discussion of the affect that mathematical models had on each of them and on other artists of the time as well.

A. Hill. "Constructivism -- the European Phenomenon," Studio International, V 171 April 1966, 140-147.

H. Moore and J. Hedgecoe. Henry Spencer Moore, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1968.

H. Read. Modern Sculpture: A Concise History. Thames and Hudson, New York, 1985.

General reference on sculpture from around the turn of the century, through the beginning of the sixties.

Other Possible References

Man Ray. "To Be Continued Unnoticed" also called "Some paper by Man Ray in connection with his exposition Dec 1948" pub Copley Galleries, 1948.

Have only found at the University of Arizona, UCLA, Yale, and Northwester Univ. Need to do interlibrary loan. Supposedly this has an essay about his use of models.

Manuel Corrada "On some Vistas Disclosed by Mathematics to the Russian Avant-Garde: Geometry, El Lissitzky, and Gabo" in Leonardo Vol 25 No 3/4 p. 382.

David Thistlewood, Herbert Read, Formlessness and Form: an Introduction to his Aesthetics (1984), particularly the chapter "Superrealism and Abstraction" has information which may be useful re: mathematics and art, influences.

Maurice Goldsmith Sage: a Life of J. D. Bernall 1980.see esp p. 225, p. 87.

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