Behind Appearance: A Study of the Relations between Painting and the Natural Sciences in This Century

It has often been pointed out that twentieth-century painting and physics share a common tendency toward probing behind appearances into the underlying structure of things ... The author provides a concise summary of those aspects of modern science that relate to his theme, including the development of a 'third science' that embraces information, communication, automation, and systems theory. He also provides in parallel a concise history of the modern movement in painting-

During the 1930s, Waddington also began his close association with such emerging avant-garde painters, sculptors, and architects as Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, John Piper, Sandy Calder, and Walter Gropius. Waddington’s knowledge and appreciation of show more art was considerable; more than thirty years later he wrote this enormously ambitious analysis Behind Appearance: A Study of the Relations between Painting and the Natural Sciences in This Century (1969). In 1936, he married painter and architect Justin Blanco White. show less