El camino cubista hacia la experiencia n-dimensional

Abstract

The methodological approach of Cubist language towards contemporary science led the Cubists to take an interest in the latest themes under discussion in the early 20th century, including subjects relating to the Fourth Dimension and everything related to the n-dimensional, both from a positivist and philosophical perspective. As a result, they consulted both hermetic publications and, more specifically, mathematical works by Esprit Jouffret and Henri Poincare, whose technical concepts were disseminated by the mathematician Maurice Princet in particular. These speculative meetings and the contact engaged in with the n-dimensional inspired a representative reorientation in the work of Marcel Duchamp, Juan Gris, Kazimir Malevich and, especially, the contributions of Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzinger, among others.