Art As Organism

Author : Charissa N. Terranova
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780857728074

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Art as Organism by Charissa N. Terranova Pdf

In this groundbreaking book, Charissa Terranova unearths a forgotten narrative of modernism, which charts the influence that biology, General Systems Theory and cybernetics had on art in the twentieth century. From kinetic and interactive art to early computer art and installations spanning an entire city, she shows that the digital image was a rich and expansive artistic medium of modernism. This book links the emergence of the digital image to the dispersion of biocentric aesthetic philosophies developed by Bauhaus pedagogue Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, from 1920s Berlin to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1970s. It uncovers seminal but overlooked references to biology, the organism, feedback loops, emotions and the Gestalt, along with an intricate genealogy of related thinkers across disciplines. Terranova interprets anew major art movements such as the Bauhaus, Op Art and Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.), by referencing contemporary insights from architects, embryologists, electrical engineers and computer scientists, among others.This book reveals the complex connections between visual culture, science and technology that comprise the deep history of twentieth-century art.

Author : Charissa N. Terranova
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780857728944

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Art as Organism by Charissa N. Terranova Pdf

What if modernism had been characterised by evolving, interconnected and multi-sensory images – rather than by the monolithic objects often described by its artists and theorists? In this groundbreaking book, Charissa Terranova unearths a forgotten narrative of modernism, which charts the influence that biology, General Systems Theory and cybernetics had on art in the twentieth century. From kinetic and interactive art to early computer art and installations spanning an entire city, she shows that the digital image was a rich and expansive artistic medium of modernism.

Author : Brandon Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Art, Modern
ISBN : 1501353942

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The Life of Forms in Art by Brandon Taylor Pdf

"What is form in modern art? How could a work of art achieve its organic life in a world increasingly dominated by mechanism, by new technology? In this new book, Brandon Taylor proposes that biology and the life sciences themselves supplied many of the analogies and metaphors by which modern artists were guided. For the creative giants of the period - Picasso, Miró, Kandinsky, Strzeminski, Dalí, Arp, Motherwell and Pollock, as well as less-known figures such as Taeuber, Erni and Kobro - questions of 'living' form loomed large in studio conversation, in the press, and in the writings of the artists themselves. In a book rich in new research and fresh thinking, a well-known art historian proposes six modalities of organic and vital life that pervade the radical experiments of modern art: the organic, the biomorphic, the ambiguous, the monstrous, the dialectical, and the liquid."--

Author : Enrico Coen
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780192862082

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The Art of Genes by Enrico Coen Pdf

Looks at the basic elements of the development of plants and animals.

Author : Kate Sloan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780429886355

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Art, Cybernetics and Pedagogy in Post-War Britain by Kate Sloan Pdf

This is the first full-length study about the British artist Roy Ascott, one of the first cybernetic artists, with a career spanning seven decades to date. The book focuses on his early career, exploring the evolution of his early interests in communication in the context of the rich overlaps between art, science and engineering in Britain during the 1950s and 1960s. The first part of the book looks at Ascott’s training and early work. The second park looks solely at Groundcourse, Ascott’s extraordinary pedagogical model for visual arts and cybernetics which used an integrative and systems-based model, drawing in behaviourism, analogue machines, performance and games. Using hitherto unpublished photographs and documents, this book will establish a more prominent place for cybernetics in post-war British art.

Author : Leopold Eidlitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : NYPL:33433065891859

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The Nature and Function of Art by Leopold Eidlitz Pdf

Author : Griselda Pollock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005-08-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781134768509

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Generations and Geographies in the Visual Arts: Feminist Readings by Griselda Pollock Pdf

Great collection from for top feminist art historians and thinkers Includes Griselda Pollock and Mieke Bal International perspective focusing on gender and race

Author : Mel Alexenberg
Publisher : Intellect Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-27
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781841505053

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The Future of Art in a Postdigital Age by Mel Alexenberg Pdf

In The Future of Art in a Postdigital Age, artist and educator Mel Alexenberg offers a vision of a postdigital future that reveals a paradigm shift from the Hellenistic to the Hebraic roots of Western culture. He ventures beyond the digital to explore postdigital perspectives rising from creative encounters among art, science, technology and human consciousness. The interrelationships between these perspectives demonstrate the confluence between postdigital art and the dynamic, Jewish structure of consciousness. Alexenberg’s pioneering artwork – a fusion of spiritual and technological realms – exemplifies the theoretical thesis of this investigation into interactive and collaborative forms that imaginatively envisages the vast potential of art in a postdigital future.

Author : Yuri Tsivian
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317928362

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Early Cinema in Russia and its Cultural Reception by Yuri Tsivian Pdf

This book examines the development of cinematic form and culture in Russia, from its late nineteenth-century beginnings as a fairground attraction to the early post-Revolutionary years. The author traces the changing perceptions of cinema and its social transition from a modernist invention to a national art form. He explores reactions to the earliest films from actors, novelists, poets, writers and journalists. His richly detailed study of the physical elements of cinematic performance includes the architecture and illumination of the cinema foyer, the speed of projection and film acoustics. In contrast to standard film histories, this book focuses on reflected images: rather than discussing films and film-makers, it features the historical film-goer and early writings on film. The book presents a vivid and changing picture of cinema culture in Russia in the twilight of the tsarist era and the first decades of the twentieth century. The study expands the whole context of reception studies and opens up questions about reception relevant to other national cinemas.

Author : Jessica Sjöholm Skrubbe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000527131

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Nell Walden, Der Sturm, and the Collaborative Cultures of Modern Art by Jessica Sjöholm Skrubbe Pdf

Based on hitherto overlooked archival material, this book reveals Nell Walden’s significant impact on the Sturm organisation through a feminist reading of supportive labour that highlights the centrality of collaborative work within the modern art world. This book introduces Walden as an ardent collector of modern and indigenous art and critically contextualises her own art production in relation to expressionist concepts of art and to gendered ideas on abstraction and decoration. Visual analyses highlight how she collaborated with professional and experimental women photographers during the Weimar era and how the circulation of these photographs served as a means to intervene in the public sphere of culture in interwar Germany. Finally, the book provides an analysis of Walden’s continuing work for Der Sturm after her voluntary exile from Germany to Switzerland in 1933 and highlights the importance of women’s supportive labour for the canonisation and institutionalisation of modern art in museums and archives. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual studies, and gender studies.

Author : Leartus Connor,Henry Alexander Cleland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Medicine
ISBN : HARVARD:HC3WHV

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The Detroit Lancet by Leartus Connor,Henry Alexander Cleland Pdf

Author : Anne Marie Mooney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135332235

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Regulatory Law Professional Practice Guide by Anne Marie Mooney Pdf

"Regulatory Law" provides a straightforward guide to the issues most frequently encountered by practitioners and trainee solicitors. Leading experts explain the key principles and guide the reader through the diverse subjects that comprise regulatory law. All the main practice areas are examined in detail, and regulation relating to various industry sectors is explained. Regulatory law is a fast moving field and all recent developments in law and practice have been covered in this guide. This is essential reading for trainee solicitors undertaking the Professional Practice Course, as well as solicitors practising in this area.

Author : Gary Huafan He,Skender Luarasi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000888898

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Contemporary Perspectives on Architectural Organicism by Gary Huafan He,Skender Luarasi Pdf

This project is born out of similar questions and discussions on the topic of organicism emergent from two critical strands regarding the discourse of organic self-generation: one dealing with the problem of stopping in the design processes in history, and the other with the organic legacy of style in the nineteenth century as a preeminent form of aesthetic ideology. The epistemologies of self-generation outlined by enlightenment and critical philosophy provided the model for the discursive formations of modern urban planning and architecture. The form of the organism was thought to calibrate modernism’s infinite extension. The architectural organicism of today does not take on the language of the biological sciences, as they did in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but rather the image of complex systems, be they computational/informational, geo/ecological, or even ontological/aesthetic ‘networks’. What is retained from the modernity of yesterday is the ideology of endless self-generation. Revisiting such a topic feels relevant now, in a time when the idea of endless generation is rendered more suspect than ever, amid an ever increasing speed and complexity of artificial intelligence (AI) networks. The essays collected in this book offer a variety of critiques of the modernist idea of endless growth in the fields of architecture, literature, philosophy, and the history of science. They range in scope from theoretical and speculative to analytic and critical and from studies of the history of modernity to reflections of our contemporary world. Far from advocating a return to the romantic forms of nineteenth-century naturphilosophie, this project focuses on probing organicism for new forms of critique and emergent subjectivities in a contemporary, 'post'-pandemic constellation of neo-naturalism in design, climate change, complex systems, and information networks. This book will be of interest to a broad range of researchers and professionals in architecture and art history, historians of science, visual artists, and scholars in the humanities more generally.

Author : United States. U.S. Congress. House. Committee on patents
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110742033

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Dept. of Science, Art and Literature. Hearings ... Apr. 15-25, 1935 by United States. U.S. Congress. House. Committee on patents Pdf

Author : Timothy O'Leary
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781441190215

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Foucault and Fiction by Timothy O'Leary Pdf

Foucault and Fiction develops a unique approach to thinking about the power of literature by drawing upon the often neglected concept of experience in Foucault's work. For Foucault, an 'experience book' is a book which transforms our experience by acting on us in a direct and unsettling way. Timothy O'Leary develops and applies this concept to literary texts. Starting from the premise that works of literature are capable of having a profound effect on their audiences, he suggests a way of understanding how these effects are produced. Offering extended analyses of Irish writers such as Swift, Joyce, Beckett, Friel and Heaney, O'Leary draws on Foucault's concept of experience as well as the work of Dewey, Gadamer, and Deleuze and Guattari. Combining these resources, he proposes a new approach to the ethics of literature. Of interest to readers in both philosophy and literary studies, this book offers new insights into Foucault's mature philosophy and an improved understanding of what it is to read and be affected by a work of fiction.