In 12 case studies of contemporary breakthroughs, only one--xerography--was made by an inventor who "fits the classic mold of the solitary genius who struggles alone," Diebold writes.
In the early twentieth century, Russian avant-garde artist Natalia Goncharova and her partner Mikhail Larionov developed rayonism — an artistic style drawing inspiration from contemporary scientific breakthroughs.
It no longer seems absurd, as its consequences continue to ramify, to say that Marcel Duchamp's invention of the readymade was as startling an intellectual innovation as the contemporary intellectual breakthroughs of Freud and Einstein.
Some white supremacists interpret more contemporary scientific breakthroughs about the human genome as further evidence for white superiority, even when it's counterintuitive.
And although they are contemporary with his breakthrough "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead," you can glimpse him finding his way.
David Edwards describes how contemporary creators achieve breakthroughs in the arts and sciences by developing their ideas in an intermediate zone of human creativity where neither art nor science is easily defined.
This book is rigorous, affirmative, sober, and pitiless: in its ambition, its purpose and its passion, it is nothing short of a breakthrough for contemporary sonic thought.
"I didn't know of the existence of contemporary art," he says.His breakthrough came when he began using decommissioned bank notes in work about money and politics, which won him acclaim locally and abroad.
The Pong case merges high science and breakthrough technology with contemporary industrial design.
It was Galileo's contemporary, Kepler, who made the crucial breakthrough, replacing the circles with ellipses and dispensing with the Ptolemaic curlicues.
In his article, he details many of the breakthrough techniques used by contemporary theorists and/or practitioners of the time.
