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Algebraic Art - Mathematical Formalism and Victorian Culture (Hardcover)
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Algebraic Art - Mathematical Formalism and Victorian Culture (Hardcover)
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Algebraic Art explores the invention of a peculiarly Victorian
account of the nature and value of aesthetic form, and it traces
that account to a surprising source: mathematics. The nineteenth
century was a moment of extraordinary mathematical innovation,
witnessing the development of non-Euclidean geometry, the
revaluation of symbolic algebra, and the importation of
mathematical language into philosophy. All these innovations sprang
from a reconception of mathematics as a formal rather than a
referential practice-as a means for describing relationships rather
than quantities. For Victorian mathematicians, the value of a claim
lay not in its capacity to describe the world but its internal
coherence. This concern with formal structure produced a striking
convergence between mathematics and aesthetics: geometers wrote
fables, logicians reconceived symbolism, and physicists described
reality as consisting of beautiful patterns. Artists, meanwhile,
drawing upon the cultural prestige of mathematics, conceived their
work as a 'science' of form, whether as lines in a painting,
twinned characters in a novel, or wavelike stress patterns in a
poem. Avant-garde photographs and paintings, fantastical novels
like Flatland and Lewis Carroll's children's books, and
experimental poetry by Swinburne, Rossetti, and Patmore created
worlds governed by a rigorous internal logic even as they were
pointedly unconcerned with reference or realist protocols.
Algebraic Art shows that works we tend to regard as outliers to
mainstream Victorian culture were expressions of a mathematical
formalism that was central to Victorian knowledge production and
that continues to shape our understanding of the significance of
form.
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