Art history

This collective volume examines the optical model of the kaleidoscope, a device that brought about a radical transformation of models of perception in art and cinema during the 20th century.

A pioneering study of the relation between the fine arts and philosophy in France, from the aftermath of the 1789 revolution to the end of the nineteenth century, when a philosophy of being called "monism"—the concept of a unity of matter and spirit—emerged and became increasingly popular among intellectuals, artists and scientists.