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Author : Gyorgy Kepes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Music
ISBN : MINN:31951000020246X
Author : Philip Morrison,C. H. Waddington,Arthur L. Loeb,Stanislaw Ulam,Lawrence B. Anderson,Ezra D. Ehrenkrantz,Richard P. Lohse,Anthony Hill,Ernö Lendvai,John Cage,François Molnar,Rudolf Arnheim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Modular coordination (Architecture)
ISBN : LCCN:66001344
Author : Gyorgy Kepes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : UOM:39015007559530
Author : Gyorgy Kepes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : UOM:39015013643856
Author : John R. Blakinger
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780262039864
How Gyorgy Kepes, the last disciple of Bauhaus modernism, became the single most significant artist within a network of scientific experts and elites. Gyorgy Kepes (1906–2001) was the last disciple of Bauhaus modernism, an acolyte of László Moholy-Nagy and a self-styled revolutionary artist. But by midcentury, transplanted to America, Kepes found he was trapped in the military-industrial-aesthetic complex. In this first book-length study of Kepes, John Blakinger argues that Kepes, by opening the research laboratory to the arts, established a new paradigm for creative practice: the artist as technocrat. First at Chicago's New Bauhaus and then for many years at MIT, Kepes pioneered interdisciplinary collaboration between the arts and sciences—what he termed “interthinking” and “interseeing.” Kepes and his colleagues—ranging from metallurgists to mathematicians—became part of an important but little-explored constellation: the Cold War avant-garde. Blakinger traces Kepes's career in the United States through a series of episodes: Kepes's work with the military on camouflage techniques; his development of a visual design pedagogy, as seen in the exhibition The New Landscape and his book The New Landscape in Art and Science; his encyclopedic Vision + Value series; his unpublished magnum opus, the Light Book; the Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS), an art-science research institute established by Kepes at MIT in 1967; and the Center's proposals for massive environmental installations that would animate the urban landscape. CAVS was entangled in the antiwar politics of the late 1960s, as many students and faculty protested MIT's partnerships with defense contractors—some of whom had ties to the Center. In attempting to “undream” the Bauhaus into existence in the postwar world, Kepes faced profound resistance. Generously illustrated, drawing on the vast archive of Kepes's papers at Stanford and MIT's CAVS Special Collection, this book supplies a missing chapter in our understanding of midcentury modern and Cold War visual culture.
Author : John Cage
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780819570550
Includes lectures, essays, diaries and other writings, including "How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse)" and "Juilliard Lecture."
Author : Jay Kappraff
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9789810245856
The first edition of Connections was chosen by the National Association of Publishers (USA) as the best book in ?Mathematics, Chemistry, and Astronomy ? Professional and Reference? in 1991. It has been a comprehensive reference in design science, bringing together in a single volume material from the areas of proportion in architecture and design, tilings and patterns, polyhedra, and symmetry. The book presents both theory and practice and has more than 750 illustrations. It is suitable for research in a variety of fields and as an aid to teaching a course in the mathematics of design. It has been influential in stimulating the burgeoning interest in the relationship between mathematics and design. In the second edition there are five new sections, supplementary, as well as a new preface describing the advances in design science since the publication of the first edition.
Author : Jay Kappraff
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2001-11-28
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9789814491327
The first edition of Connections was chosen by the National Association of Publishers (USA) as the best book in “Mathematics, Chemistry, and Astronomy — Professional and Reference” in 1991. It has been a comprehensive reference in design science, bringing together in a single volume material from the areas of proportion in architecture and design, tilings and patterns, polyhedra, and symmetry. The book presents both theory and practice and has more than 750 illustrations. It is suitable for research in a variety of fields and as an aid to teaching a course in the mathematics of design. It has been influential in stimulating the burgeoning interest in the relationship between mathematics and design. In the second edition there are five new sections, supplementary, as well as a new preface describing the advances in design science since the publication of the first edition. Contents: Proportion in ArchitectureSimilarityThe Golden MeanGraphsTilings with PolygonsTwo-Dimensional Networks and LatticesPolyhedra: Platonic SolidsTransformation of the Platonic Solids ITransformation of the Platonic Solids IIPolyhedra: Space FillingIsometries and MirrorsSymmetry of the Plane Readership: Polytechnic students, architects, designers, mathematicians and general readers. Keywords:Design Science;Art;Architecture;Geometry;Polyhedra;Tilings;Graph Theory;Symmetry;Proportion;Golden MeanReviews: “This book, on the mathematics of natural and artful form, is a lively new entrant to the small shelf of those fine works.” Scientific American “If I had only one book in my library to which I refer for mathematics questions in art and architecture, this would be the one.” Nexus Network Journal “A worthy volume rediscovers the golden mean for readers in the postgeometry generation.” BYTE “… Kappraff's book is nothing less than the first textbook of design science.”Bulletin of the Buckminster Fuller Institute “This is no less than an early and strong move toward implementing Buckminster Fuller's call for a Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Science. Even a less-than-rigorous reading will convince you that something important is being presented here.” Whole Earth Review “For the visually oriented person with a hunger to understand pattern, Connections can be a bridge to a new world.” American Journal of Physics “A spectacular presentation of design science — ‘the grammar of space’ — that explores with rich details instances of similarity, proportion, tilings, graphs, lattices, polyhedra, isometries, and symmetry in art, architecture, engineering, and science. Punctuated with exercises and problems (thus making the monograph useful as a course or seminar text); illustrated with over 200 figures; supported by an extensive multi-disciplinary bibliography that is well-referenced to the text. A superb option for interdisciplinary seminars.” American Mathematical Monthly
Author : Branden Wayne Joseph
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501306426
Experimentations provides a detailed historical and theoretical analysis of the first three decades of experimental composer John Cage's aesthetic production (ca. 1940-1972). Paying particular attention to Cage's inter- and cross-disciplinary engagements with the visual arts and architecture during this period, the book sheds new light on some of Cage's most controversial and influential innovations, such as the use of noise, chance techniques, indeterminacy, electronic technologies, and computerization, as well as upon lesser known but important ideas and strategies such as transparency, multiplicity, virtuality, and actualization. Ultimately, it traces the development of Cage's avant-garde aesthetic and political project as it transformed from the emulation of historical avant-garde precedents such as futurism and the Bauhaus, to the development of important precedents for the post-World War II movements of happenings and Fluxus, to its ultimate abandonment in the aftermath of problems encountered in the vast, multimedia composition HPSCHD (1967-69).
Author : Herve Vanel
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780252095252
Triple Entendre discusses the rise and spread of background music in contexts as diverse as office workplaces, shopping malls, and musical performance. Hervé Vanel examines background music in several guises, beginning with Erik Satie's "Furniture Music" of the late 1910s and early 1920s, which first demonstrated the idea of a music not meant to be listened to and was later considered a precedent to modern, functional background music. Vanel argues that when the Muzak Corporation's commercialized ambient music became a predominant feature of modern life in the 1940s--both as a brand and a genre of background music--it also became a powerful instrument of social engineering in an advanced capitalist society. Different kinds of music were developed to encourage or incite greater productivity in the workplace, more energetic shopping, or more animated socializing. Vanel's discussion culminates in the creative response of the composer John Cage to the pervasiveness and power of background music in contemporary society. Cage neither opposed nor rejected Muzak, but literally answered its challenge by formulating a parallel concept that he called "Muzak-Plus." Forty years after Satie presented his work to general critical puzzlement, Cage saw how background music could be combined with mid-century technology and theories of art and performance to create a participatory soundscape on a scale that Satie could not have envisioned, again reconfiguring the listener's stance to music. By examining the subterranean connections existing between these three formulations of a singular idea, Triple Entendre analyzes and challenges the crucial boundary that separates an artistic concept from its actual implementation in life.
Author : Julia Robinson
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780262516303
An extended trajectory of Cage literature, from early critical reaction to writing by contemporaries to current scholarship. John Cage (1912–1992) defined a radical practice of composition that changed the course of modern music and shaped a new conceptual horizon for postwar art. Famous for his use of chance and “silence” in musical works, a pioneer in electronic music and the nonstandard use of instruments, Cage was one of the most influential composers of the last century. This volume traces a trajectory of writings on the artist, from the earliest critical reactions to the scholarship of today. If the first writing on Cage in the American context, often written by close associates with Cage's involvement, seemed lacking in critical distance, younger scholars—a generation removed—have recently begun to approach the legacy from a new perspective, with more developed theoretical frameworks and greater skepticism. This book captures that evolution. The texts include discussions of Cage's work in the context of the New Music scene in Germany in the 1950s; Yvonne Rainer's essay looking back on Cage and New York experimentalism of the 1960s; a complex and original mapping of Cage's place in a wider avant-garde genealogy that includes Le Corbusier and Moholy-Nagy; a musicologist's account of Cage's process of defining and formalizing his concept of indeterminacy; and an analysis of Cage's project that considers his strategies of self-representation as key to his unique impact on modern and postmodern art.
Author : István Hargittai
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1992-03-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789814522403
Fivefold symmetry is common in flowers, fruits, molecules, logos, and buildings, but it is a forbidden symmetry in the world of crystals. A few years ago, the so-called quasicrystals were discovered displaying fivefold symmetry, and it caused a minirevolution in crystallography. There has been increased awareness of fivefold symmetry in all domains of human interest ever since. The present book brings together authors and ideas on a common theme from mathematics, the sciences, design, and anthropology to history, literature, and the arts. Its 29 chapters are an offering by scientists and humanists from 13 countries to a broad readership of professionals and laypersons about fivefold symmetry and the areas that are being bridged by this unique concept. Contents: Fivefold Symmetry in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Beyond (J Brandmüller)800 Year Old Pentagonal Tiling from Maragh(, Iran, and the New Varieties of Aperiodic Tiling it Inspired (E Makovicky)Fivefold Symmetry in Hyperbolic Crystallography (D Dunham)Pentagonal Chaos (C A Pickover)The Discovery of Space Frames with Fivefold Symmetry (S Baer)The Icosahedral Design of the Great Pyramid (H F Verheyen)A Mystic History of Fivefold Symmetry in Japan (K Miyazaki)Albrecht Dürer and the Regular Pentagon (D W Crowe)Fivefold Symmetry in the Graphic Art of M C Escher (R A Dunlap)Hawaiian Flowers with Fivefold Symmetry (M Hargittai)The Relationship between Mathematics and Mysticism of the Golden Mean Through History (J Kappraff)An Islamic Pentagonal Seal (W K Chorbachi & A L Loeb)and other papers Readership: Scientists, humanists, artists and laypersons. keywords:
Author : István Hargittai
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 1068 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781483149523
International Series in Modern Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Volume 10: Symmetry: Unifying Human Understanding provides a tremendous scope of “symmetry , covering subjects from fractals through court dances to crystallography and literature. This book discusses the limits of perfection, symmetry as an aesthetic factor, extension of the Neumann-Minnigerode-Curie principle, and symmetry of point imperfections in solids. The symmetry rules for chemical reactions, matching and symmetry of graphs, mosaic patterns of H. J. Woods, and bilateral symmetry in insects are also elaborated. This text likewise covers the crystallographic patterns, Milton's mathematical symbol of theodicy, symmetries of soap films, and gapon formalism. This volume is a good source for researchers and specialists concerned with symmetry.
Author : Klaus Mainzer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110886931
Author : Laura Colini,Frank Eckardt
Publisher : Königshausen & Neumann
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : City planning
ISBN : 9783826043864
Some of the contents: Rereading Bauhaus S. Parker: Building stories: Bauhaus and the narrative of modernity M. Miles: The wreck of hope: criticality as salvage G. Gilloch: Critical theory and Bauhaus Re-reading S. de Rudder: The Bauhaus and the city as white spot: How Gropius lost his reputation on the streets of New York N. Huber: Tracing transdisciplinary Research: Urban laboratories from Weimar to the American West F. Eckardt: Bauhaus and the New Frankfurt : Limited opportunities, limited concepts J. Clammer: Asia coming to Bauhaus: an untold story re-reading the City L. Marcus: The syntax of space J.R. Short: liquid cities: Understanding the urban Postmodern M. Breicocoli: The influx of the neo-liberal city L. Nyka: Transforming public urbanism M. Vaattovaara: How develop sustainable urban regeneration process? M. Cremaschi: New neighbourhoods in Europe M. Lopez: Participatory planning in conflict: the case study of Medellin.