Bohm-Biederman Correspondence.Creativity in Art and Science, edited by Paavo Pylkkanen. Routledge/253 pp./$40.OO (sb). In 1960, American artist Charles Biederman, founder of the Constructionism constructionism the use of or reliance on construction or constructive methods. — constructionist, n. See also: Attitudes movement in art, wrote a letter to physicist David Bohm David Joseph Bohm (b. December 20 1917, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania - d. October 27 1992, London) was an American-born quantum physicist who made significant contributions in the fields of theoretical physics, philosophy and neuropsychology, and to the Manhattan Project. in response to his book on quantum physics quantum physics n. (used with a sing. verb) The branch of physics that uses quantum theory to describe and predict the properties of a physical system. quantum physics See quantum mechanics. , Causality and Chance in Modern Physics (1957), and thus began a correspondence that lasted until Bohm's death in 1992. The result was thousands of pages of dialogue between two radical thinkers who found similarities between themselves and the fields in which they were each known. Biederman suggests that the acceptance of indeterminism in·de·ter·min·ism n. 1. Unpredictability. 2. Philosophy The doctrine that there are some events, particularly some human actions or decisions, which have no cause. as fact (a result of the failing of determinism) was synonymous with synonymous with adjective equivalent to, the same as, identical to, similar to, identified with, equal to, tantamount to, interchangeable with, one and the same as the interest in Surrealism. The book reprints letters from 1960-62 in which the writers explore their reactions against the prevailing viewpoints in their respective fields. A brief synopsis of each letter appears in the back for easy reference to the topics and themes discussed throughout the correspondence. |
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