Duchamp and Poincaré Renew an Old Acquaintance

Abstract

What did the groundbreaking modernist painter Marcel Duchamp learn from Henri PoincarA©, the father of chaos? Historians of art and science, along with mathematicians and postmodern theorists, debated the question from 5 to 7 November at a conference organized by Rhonda Roland Shearer, a New York City-based artist, and her husband, Harvard biologist Stephen Jay Gould (who is also the president of AAAS, which publishes Science). Shearer and her colleagues have gathered evidence that Poincarean ideas lurk behind several of the artist9s most famous works--and as a result, these works are not what they appear to be.

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