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Icastic imagery can be found in the models of the crystal ("the self-organizing system") and the flame ("order out of noise"), which Calvino steals from a debate between Jean Piaget and Noam Chomsky on the philosophy of science. Under the emblem of the crystal, language is a privileged place...
The immortal "geometric money" puzzle is one of the original types of this kind of puzzle. On first glance, it looks as though if you draw a diagonal line through a three-by-ten box and rearrange the pieces, you will wind up with a 32 square-inch field instead...
Four seperate displays are dedicated to three-dimensional geometric sequence puzzles. Perhaps the best-known and most obvious example of this kind is Erno Rubik's cube puzzle. That wonderful cuboid object, first marketed in the U.S. in the early 1980s, swept the globe, selling millions of copies in the...
Some were busily trying to remove a wiffle ball from a knotted string, others building ducks from tangram "furniture," others diligently working on all 336 combinations of the six-piece burr puzzle, and others intricately involved with the implications of the geometric money puzzle.
Natalia Goncharova's "Grain Harvest"(1908)--the only work of a woman in theexhibit--is a superb example of the "primitivist"folk art. The painting reflects a deliberateattempt at distortion: the trees are blue, anoutline of a cat is painted broadside on the roofof the house, and the geometric regions...