Art and Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light by Leonard Shlain | Goodreads
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Art interprets the visible world, physics charts its un…
277 reviews532 followers December 12, 2016 Oh, dear. This is probably one of the most infuriatingly frustrating books I have read in quite a long time. It could have been so much better. And this is the second time, within a short time span, that I feel duty-bound to post a not-so-positive review of a book that has been rated so highly by the overwhelming majority of readers. It is a book that does contain some very interesting and original insights, and it is well written in a beautiful, engaging and fluent prose; the author is also quite brilliant as an art critic, and proficient and…
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