Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP140103820

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP140103820

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

M.C.Escher and his Contemporaries: the Genesis of the Impossible. The project aims to produce a conceptual history of the twentieth-century impossible pictures movement which developed around M.C.Escher, to classify kinds of impossible pictures, and particularly to establish priorities over who discovered what. This requires geometrical construction, and rigorous logical and mathematical analysis. The project will employ the novel techniques available within the theory of inconsistency. The significance of this work is that it demonstrates the rich conceptual resources available within inconsistent content. Expected outcomes are a book aimed at the general reader, technical articles in logic and mathematics journals, and a expanded understanding of our human ability to grasp inconsistent visual contents.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 2014

End Date: 12-2019

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $746,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Philosophy | Aesthetics | Philosophy not elsewhere classified | Logic

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge through Studies of the Creative Arts and Writing | Expanding Knowledge in the Mathematical Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in Philosophy and Religious Studies |

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