en technique and meaning (Baldick 140). In part, this was a response to the discovery and dissemination of ideas from psychology showing the complexities of human experience in a new light. Science was discovering the uncertainties of existence. The atomic world showed that the reality we perceive through the sense is not the only reality. Psychology was showing that behavior was more complex than previously imagined and that there was an entire world of relationships and forces that was hidden. The ambiguities and uncertainties that this new knowledge created was expressed in different ways by artists in different fields. In painting it was seen in the abstractions of artists as widely varied as Duchamps, Picasso, Klee, and many others. In the theater, playwrights such as Pirandello and Brecht delved into abstract structures and borrowed from the abstractions of other cultures--notably Oriental forms such as the Japanese Noh drama--to escape from the realism of the theater of the nineteenth century. In mus
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