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Bohm-Biederman Correspondence

Creativity in Art and Science

By: Charles Biederman, Paavo Pylkkanen (Editor), David Bohm

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Hardcover | 3 December 1998 | Edition Number 1

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286 Pages

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21.59 x 13.97 x 1.75

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""It was sheer chance that I encountered David Bohm's writing in 1958 . . . I knew nothing about him. What struck me about his work and prompted my initial letter was his underlying effort to seek for some larger sense of reality, which seemed a very humanized" "search. This was further evidenced as our correspondence progressed, and he made the effort to communicate with me beyond the private language of physicists."" --Charles Biederman
In March of 1960, the artist Charles Biederman wrote a one page, spontaneous letter to David Bohm, the first of over four thousand pages of correspondence that ended in 1969. This first volume of the " Bohm-Biederman Correspondence, " including letters between 1960 and 1962, is a cultural document which traces the fascinating exchange between art and science, creativity and theory, a great physicist and an extraordinary artist.
One of the most important factors that triggered such intense correspondence between the two men was their shared interest in the natural world. Approaching nature from different angles, the perspectives of art and science meant that they complemented and in this sense needed each other in order to obtain a fuller understanding. The two men also felt a dissatisfaction with the dominant trends their fields. They shared the idea that both in art and in physics, traditional views of nature had become inadequate in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, and the mainstream had failed to respond adequately to new situations.
These letters give readers a rare opportunity to engage in a remarkable transatlantic intellectual discussion between the prestigious physicist and a great artist.

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"They revel in each other's inquiring spirit, and readers can only revel in their adventure, A useful set of summaries of the letters is appended." -Publishers Weekly "Passionate and stimulating... Crystallized in this volume, the first of a series comprising the 4000 pages of the principals' correspondence between 1960 and 1969, is the spirit of an age struggling to understand itself . . . They revel in each other's inquiring spirit, and readers can only revel in their adventure ." -"Publishers Weekly "In the "Bohm-Biederman Correspondence we find revolutionary minds at work, seeking to close the hiatus between art and science, and more deeply to understand nature as a fundamentally creative process and what this implies for responsible human action, whether as artists, scientists, or in the creative living of our lives.." -Gordon Globus, Emeritus Professor, UC Irvine "These letters address with passion, vision and a sense of urgency, crises in science and art which we still face today. Here is an opportunity not only to encounter the exciting ideas of two creative thinkers, but to witness the unfolding of those ideas through a dynamic dialogue." -Ronald L. Chrisley, University of Sussex

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