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Beginning with Summertime by Jackson Pollock and arriving at the musical composition “Jacksontime” by means of mathematics involved an operation of translation in the Latin sense of traducere, “carry from one place to another”.
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Etymologically speaking, from Inter, mediation, and pretium, price, in the sense of a mediator who does not deceive the parties but gives to each his due [3].
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For a mathematical investigation of the painting, see [5].
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[10], especially chap. 4, section 2, “La lingua nel cervello”, p. 261: “The phases make no sense in themselves, but acquire meaning because our brain is constructed to decodify them, just as our eyes are constructed to analyse light, but as Moro explains, comparing language and light, we do not see light, but only the effects that it has on objects. Our language functions the same way; words do not have an intrinsic content, but when they arrive to someone’s attentive (and competent) ear, they become something, they exist” (taken from the review by Leonardo Caffo).
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See the general remarks in Kandinsky’s Point and Line to Plane [8].
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Amodio, D. (2013). From Pollock’s Summertime to Jacksontime. In: Emmer, M. (eds) Imagine Math 2. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2889-0_17
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