ART HISTORY LECTURE SERIES: THOMAS BANCHOFF

"Salvador Dali and the Fourth Dimension: A Mathematician's Personal Reflections"

A lecture by Dr. Thomas Banchoff

Salvador Dali was fascinated by science and mathematics, and geometric objects in various dimensions are central to many of his paintings, for example "Corpus Hypercubicus." Where did Dali get his mathematical inspirations and how did he incorporate them into his paintings? This talk will recount meetings with the artist over a ten year period, and it will be illustrated by computer graphic images and animations.

Sponsored by the David Bruton, Jr. Centennial Professorship in Art History.