{"id":1065,"date":"2009-10-23T14:27:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T21:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/10\/einstein-vs-picasso.html"},"modified":"2009-10-23T14:27:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-23T21:27:00","slug":"einstein-vs-picasso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/10\/einstein-vs-picasso.html","title":{"rendered":"Einstein vs. Picasso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/SuIvlf4oHxI\/AAAAAAAAAdY\/_tVEbZgUHiM\/s1600-h\/Pablo_picasso_1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/SuIvlf4oHxI\/AAAAAAAAAdY\/_tVEbZgUHiM\/s320\/Pablo_picasso_1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>ONE of my favorite pieces of my own, one that sent me on a real intellectual journey, explored the similarities between albert einstein&#8217;s breakthroughs in physics and the ferment in modernist art and literature. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>the artist einstein is usually likened to is cubist-era pablo picasso. these two unconventional bohemians were engaged in what scholar arthur. i. miller calls &#8220;the same problem,&#8221; as einstein shattered newtonian physics and picasso shattered the picture plane.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>sunday is picasso&#8217;s birthday, so i&#8217;m posting <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2004\/oct\/03\/entertainment\/ca-timberg3\">my story<\/a>, which was tied to a very fine show at the skirball cultural center.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>i hope it proves as mind-blowing to read as it was to research and write.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>fun fact: for this story i spoke to a freud scholar named michael roth, who at the time ran a school in california but is now the president of my alma mater, wesleyan.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>ps. i also love the modern lovers song.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ONE of my favorite pieces of my own, one that sent me on a real intellectual journey, explored the similarities between albert einstein&#8217;s breakthroughs in physics and the ferment in modernist art and literature. the artist einstein is usually likened to is cubist-era pablo picasso. these two unconventional bohemians were engaged in what scholar arthur. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70,35,430,426,429,425,151,427,428,313],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1065","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-art","7":"category-books","8":"category-einstein","9":"category-modern-lovers","10":"category-modernism","11":"category-picasso","12":"category-science","13":"category-skirball","14":"category-theory-of-relativity","15":"category-wesleyan","16":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}