Artifice And Design

Author : Barry Allen
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780801457029

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Artifice and Design by Barry Allen Pdf

"As familiar and widely appreciated works of modern technology, bridges are a good place to study the relationship between the aesthetic and the technical. Fully engaged technical design is at once aesthetic and structural. In the best work (the best design, the most well made), the look and feel of a device (its aesthetic, perceptual interface) is as important a part of the design problem as its mechanism (the interface of parts and systems). We have no idea how to make something that is merely efficient, a rational instrument blindly indifferent to how it appears. No engineer can design such a thing and none has ever been built."—from Artifice and Design In an intriguing book about the aesthetics of technological objects and the relationship between technical and artistic accomplishment, Barry Allen develops the philosophical implications of a series of interrelated concepts-knowledge, artifact, design, tool, art, and technology-and uses them to explore parallel questions about artistry in technology and technics in art. This may be seen at the heart of Artifice and Design in Allen's discussion of seven bridges: he focuses at length on two New York bridges—the Hell Gate Bridge and the Bayonne Bridge—and makes use of original sources for insight into the designers' ideas about the aesthetic dimensions of their work. Allen starts from the conviction that art and technology must be treated together, as two aspects of a common, technical human nature. The topics covered in Artifice and Design are wide-ranging and interdisciplinary, drawing from evolutionary biology, cognitive psychology, and the history and anthropology of art and technology. The book concludes that it is a mistake to think of art as something subjective, or as an arbitrary social representation, and of Technology as an instrumental form of purposive rationality. "By segregating art and technology," Allen writes, "we divide ourselves against ourselves, casting up self-made obstacles to the ingenuity of art and technology."

Author : J.F. Martel
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781583945780

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Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice by J.F. Martel Pdf

Part treatise, part critique, part call to action, Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice is a journey into the uncanny realities revealed to us in the great works of art of the past and present. Received opinion holds that art is culturally-determined and relative. We are told that whether a picture, a movement, a text, or sound qualifies as a "work of art" largely depends on social attitudes and convention. Drawing on examples ranging from Paleolithic cave paintings to modern pop music and building on the ideas of James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, Gilles Deleuze, Carl Jung, and others, J.F. Martel argues that art is an inborn human phenomenon that precedes the formation of culture and even society. Art is free of politics and ideology. Paradoxically, that is what makes it a force of liberation wherever it breaks through the trance of humdrum existence. Like the act of dreaming, artistic creation is fundamentally mysterious. It is a gift from beyond the field of the human, and it connects us with realities that, though normally unseen, are crucial components of a living world. While holding this to be true of authentic art, the author acknowledges the presence—overwhelming in our media-saturated age—of a false art that seeks not to liberate but to manipulate and control. Against this anti-artistic aesthetic force, which finds some of its most virulent manifestations in modern advertising, propaganda, and pornography, true art represents an effective line of defense. Martel argues that preserving artistic expression in the face of our contemporary hyper-aestheticism is essential to our own survival. Art is more than mere ornament or entertainment; it is a way, one leading to what is most profound in us. Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice places art alongside languages and the biosphere as a thing endangered by the onslaught of predatory capitalism, spectacle culture, and myopic technological progress. The book is essential reading for visual artists, musicians, writers, actors, dancers, filmmakers, and poets. It will also interest anyone who has ever been deeply moved by a work of art, and for all who seek a way out of the web of deception and vampiric diversion that the current world order has woven around us.

Author : Martin Krieger
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2000-04-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015053102417

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What's Wrong with Plastic Trees? by Martin Krieger Pdf

"Krieger takes design - in architecture, landscape, interiors, engineering, and systems and computer science - to be modeled by traditional theological and artistic problems. And here, he claims, design has traditionally been a redesign of nature. For nature is for us - as Durkheim would describe it - a totem."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Jonathan Hill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Architectural design
ISBN : 0000013579

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Artifice by Jonathan Hill Pdf

Author : James Curcio
Publisher : Intellect (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Arts and society
ISBN : 1789381088

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Masks by James Curcio Pdf

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword: The Shifting Shaman of the Modern Age -- Introduction: Somebody Else Took His Place, and Bravely Cried -- 1. Masks All the Way Down -- 2. Mishima, Bowie and the Anti-Metaphysics of the Mask -- 3. Not All That Glitters Is Gold: Ziggy Stardust and the Fractured Mask of a Generation -- 4. Watch That Man: Splicing Tape with Burroughs and Bowie -- 5. From Vigilius Haufniensis to Ziggy Stardust: Pseudonyms, Irony and Truth in Kierkegaard and Bowie -- 6. Mascara and Marriage: The Twin Masks of David Bowie and Robert Smith -- 7. The Great Contrarians -- 8. Seeing Things Like Hunter: Ralph Steadman's Cartoon Visions as Revelatory Masks in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas -- 9. The Beautiful Madness: The Primacy of Wonder in the Work of Thomas Ligotti -- 10. The Skin and the Double: Firbank's Aesthetics of Surface -- 11. God's Twisted Identity -- 12. Wishful Beginnings and Creative Ends: Conversation with Davide De Angelis -- 13. On Existentialism and the Occult: Conversation with Gary Lachman -- 14. The Many Masks of Manifestation -- Epilogue: Art for Art's Sake -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:636420051

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The Necessity of Artifice by Anonim Pdf

Author : Owen D Pomery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1910395803

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Victory Point by Owen D Pomery Pdf

On a summer's day, Ellen returns to the coastal town she grew up in: Victory Point. Revisiting old haunts and people from her past, she feels increasingly disconnected from her previous life, and exhausted by her constant struggle to forge a path ahead. Exploring the town, Ellen searches for some comfort in her own history that could give her the strength to move forward in her own life. Victory Point explores the concept of how we live and choose to be remembered, asking whether we should strive for a higher calling, or if a simple, domestic legacy is the most honest and admirable achievement we can hope for. Set in a town that is itself an architectural experiment, this graphic novel is a poignant and heartfelt search for meaning in life.

Author : The Ladies of Mischief LLC
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-10
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1937513106

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Needles and Artifice by The Ladies of Mischief LLC Pdf

The Ladies of Mischief Interrupt Their Knitting to Present to You, Needles and Artifice: A Refined Adventure Story with Ingenious Knitting Patterns Gentle ladies and kind sirs: welcome to the world of Needles and Artifice, where corseted Victorian fashion gets an energized infusion of punk. In this fantastically playful take on steampunk knitwear design, the Ladies of Mischief offer not only 23 original patterns, but also a high-flying, busk-snapping adventure that plays out across each chapter. Pull on your goggles and spats, knitters: you're in for a wild ride.

Author : O'Donnell + Tuomey,Sheila O'Donnell,John Tuomey
Publisher : Artifice Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1908967471

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Space for Architecture by O'Donnell + Tuomey,Sheila O'Donnell,John Tuomey Pdf

A medium-sized Dublin-based practice, O'Donnell + Tuomey Architects have been involved with urban design, educational and cultural buildings, houses and housing projects in Ireland, the Netherlands and the UK.

Author : Bill Terry,Rosemary Bates
Publisher : TouchWood Editions
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781771510134

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Beauty by Design by Bill Terry,Rosemary Bates Pdf

You may never look at a garden in the same way again. Though not a “how-to” book, Beauty By Design is a treasure trove of ideas and enchantment for seasoned gardeners and beginners alike. Eleven inspired artists of the garden share their stories, their secrets, and their passion for gardening. Landscape is the canvas. Foliage, flowers, rocks, water, and other bounties of nature are the materials. With plants, objects, art, and artifice, they create magical spaces, engage our senses, and summon forth pure delight. Travel with Bill Terry and Rosemary Bates to these special places on the Pacific Northwest coast. Visit Dan Hinkley’s enchanted garden, perched above the shore of Puget Sound in Washington State. Close by, beauty explodes in an earthly paradise created by sculptors George and David Lewis and in Linda Cochran’s stunning garden of exotics. Cross the Strait of Juan de Fuca to Vancouver Island and potter Robin Hopper’s “Anglojapanadian” woodland wonderland. Enjoy the subtle blending of texture and colour in painter Eva Diener’s Sunshine Coast botanical garden. Admire the genius of Robert and Birgit Bateman’s inspiring space on Salt Spring Island, Des and Sandy Kennedy’s fairy-tale forest house and garden on Denman Island, and Kathy Leishman’s garden of refinement for all seasons on Bowen Island. In downtown Vancouver, Glen Patterson indulges his passion for alpines and conifers in his astonishing third-storey roof garden. Elsewhere in the city, Pam Frost’s eye for colour and arrangement transports the viewer out of the urban into the sublime, while on the Saanich Peninsula, writers Lorna Crozier and Patrick Lane speak with love and eloquence of their garden, and in verse, too. Accompanied by breathtaking photographs, these gardeners and their stories will inspire all who love to paint with plants.

Author : Jeffrey Allsbrook,Silvia Kuhle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-26
Category : Architectural firms
ISBN : 1911339044

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Standard Architecture Design by Jeffrey Allsbrook,Silvia Kuhle Pdf

Through an in-depth exploration of 9 projects ranging from retail to residential design, Standard highlights the practice of Los Angeles-based interdisciplinary studio Standard while it deconstructs traditional conceptions of interior and exterior space. By honing in on the malleability of the storefront and its transformative role across varying sectors of architecture and design, Standard presents an alternative understanding of the facade. The public/private divide becomes permeable, and cultural narratives can be written from the inside out - flowing from fundamental elements like space and light to the contextual meaning of place. In Standard's world, transitional spaces such as doors, windows, and openings come to define and bring meaning to our collective experience of place. From nooks like Hidden House and Kayne Griffin Corcoran that escape their immediate surroundings to the hybrid retail-gallery venues such as the Helmut Lang Concept Store and Maxfield Gallery in West Hollywood, Standard unveils the studio's unique philosophy in action. Across all of Standard's work is the feeling of osmosis through space and time: where old sites bleed into new structures, and apparently contrasting elements of urban life are artfully exposed to one other, re-producing themselves in the process. The result is a sophisticated rendering of place that is at once as intimate as it is accessible, and as nuanced as it is organic. Standard is the partnership of Jeffrey Allsbrook and Silvia Kuhle, two Los Angeles-based architects whose combined practice stems from a research-based and collaborative approach to architecture, interiors, and design. Standard fuses classical teachings with contemporary applications to arrive at new forms of living and working. 153 colour and b/w illustrations

Author : Marisa Bass
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691177151

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Insect Artifice by Marisa Bass Pdf

How the nature illustrations of a Renaissance polymath reflect his turbulent age This pathbreaking and stunningly illustrated book recovers the intersections between natural history, politics, art, and philosophy in the late sixteenth-century Low Countries. Insect Artifice explores the moment when the seismic forces of the Dutch Revolt wreaked havoc on the region’s creative and intellectual community, compelling its members to seek solace in intimate exchanges of art and knowledge. At its center is a neglected treasure of the late Renaissance: the Four Elements manuscripts of Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1600), a learned Netherlandish merchant, miniaturist, and itinerant draftsman who turned to the study of nature in this era of political and spiritual upheaval. Presented here for the first time are more than eighty pages in color facsimile of Hoefnagel’s encyclopedic masterwork, which showcase both the splendor and eccentricity of its meticulously painted animals, insects, and botanical specimens. Marisa Anne Bass unfolds the circumstances that drove the creation of the Four Elements by delving into Hoefnagel’s writings and larger oeuvre, the works of his friends, and the rich world of classical learning and empirical inquiry in which he participated. Bass reveals how Hoefnagel and his colleagues engaged with natural philosophy as a means to reflect on their experiences of war and exile, and found refuge from the threats of iconoclasm and inquisition in the manuscript medium itself. This is a book about how destruction and violence can lead to cultural renewal, and about the transformation of Netherlandish identity on the eve of the Dutch Golden Age.

Author : James Dalrymple,Jonathan Fruoco,Virginia Sherman
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443888707

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(Re)writing and Remembering by James Dalrymple,Jonathan Fruoco,Virginia Sherman Pdf

Recounting past events is intrinsic to the storytelling function, as most fiction assumes the past tense as the natural means of narrating a story. Few narratives draw attention to this process, yet others make the act of remembering a primary part of the narrative situation. Ranging in its focus from poetry to novels, autobiographical memoirs and biopics – from the ostensibly fictional to the implicitly real – this volume discusses the extent to which such fictional acts of remembering are also acts of rewriting the past to suit the needs of the present. How seamlessly does experience yield to the ordering strictures of narrative and what is at stake in the process? What must be omitted or stylised, and to what (ideological) end? In making an artefact of the past, what role does artifice play, and what does this process also tell us about history-making?

Author : Tony Fry,Adam Nocek
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781000320091

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Design in Crisis by Tony Fry,Adam Nocek Pdf

This book is an essential contribution to the transdisciplinary field of critical design studies. The essays in this collection locate design at the center of a series of interrelated planetary crises, from climate change, nuclear war, and racial and geopolitical violence to education, computational culture, and the loss of the commons. In doing so, the essays propose a range of needed interventions in order to transform design itself and its role within the shifting realities of a planetary crisis. It challenges the widely popular view that design can contribute to solving world problems by exposing how this attitude only intensifies the problems we currently face. In this way, the essays critique the dominant modes of framing the meaning and scope of design as a largely Anglo-European 'problem-solving' practice. By drawing on post-development theory, decolonial theory, black studies, continental philosophy, science and technology studies, and more, the contributions envision a critical and speculative practice that problematises both its engagement with planet and itself. The essays in this collection will appeal to design theorists and practitioners alike, but also to scholars and students generally concerned with how the past and future of design is implicated in the unfolding complexity of ecological devastation, racial and political violence, coloniality, technological futures, and the brutality of modern Western culture generally.

Author : Barbara Brondi,Marco Rainò
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Design
ISBN : 8875702292

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In R by Barbara Brondi,Marco Rainò Pdf