C. H. Waddington, Behind Appearance, 1970, HC, Good

Waddington, C. H. Cambridge, The MIT Press, 1970. 

English, First MIT Press Edition, Good, HC, Folio, 9 ⅜” x 12,” 256 pp.

ISBN: 262230437

Gray woven cloth over boards with white titling to spine, gray pastedowns and endpapers, in publisher’s white dust jacket with blue, gray, and red text to front, and black text to spine and inside flaps. Mildly loose binding, mild soiling to bottom, mild spine tilt, signed by previous owner at front endpaper, sticker residue to front pastedown, mild age toning, otherwise clean and excellent. In a Good dust jacket now protected in a Mylar sleeve. Mild edgewear, mild shelfwear and soiling to front and back, price clip to front inner flap, mild age toning, otherwise good. 256 pp. Replete with 70 full-color plates and 150 black-and-white halftones. Through a selection of modern pieces, Waddington argues that twentieth-century paintings have a connection to physics in a sense that both seek deeper understandings of the world. From the dust jacket: “Waddington examines the art-science relationship at several levels that can be divided between the conscious connections made by painters who followed the development of twentieth-century physics and the unconscious reflections in the work of artists of the new scientific description and schematization of nature.”