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Archive: February 2010 (2 Posts)

Image of an ornate clock showing 2:05 with sculpted male figures sitting on each side of the clock face

Burning Bright

Posted by: Jennifer Gavin

Art and science, and sometimes art and politics, mirror each other in times of rapid change. Robert Hughes made that case in his history of modern art – noting it moved from straight representation to pointillism, cubism, and abstraction as science checked off its discoveries of the 20th Century, such as X-rays and the structure …