Liquid Crystals - The Science and Art of a Fluid Form

Informationen zum Autor Esther Leslie is Professor of Political Aesthetics in the School of English and Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London. She is the author of Walter Benjamin: Overpowering Conformism (2000), Hollywood Flatlands: Critical Theory, Animation and the Avant-garde (2002) Synthetic Worlds: Nature, Art and the Chemical Industry (Reaktion, 2005), and the editor and translator of On Photography by Walter Benjamin (Reaktion, 2015). Klappentext For the very first time, Liquid Crystals tells the history of this anomalous and little understood phase of matter in relation to a 'liquid crystal' epoch, spanning from 1820 to today, detailing the key interminglings of the liquid and crystalline located in politics, philosophy and art during this time.

Product details

• Authors: Leslie, Esther Leslie, Leslie Esther
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2016
• EAN: 9781780236452
• ISBN: 978-1-78023-645-2
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Mechanics, acoustics; Populärwissenschaftliche Werke, popular science, SCIENCE / Physics / Condensed Matter