Art as organism : biology and the evolution of the digital image /
What if modernism had been characterized 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 th...
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| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
I.B. Tauris,
[2016]
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| Series: | International library of modern and contemporary art ;
32. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface: modernism after the affective turn
- Introduction: the haptic unconscious: László Moholy-Nagy's organismic aesthetics
- Bauhaus biology: the beginnings of biofunctionalism
- György Kepes and the light image as bio-image: pop art-and-science, integration, and distribution
- The distributed image of the city: the collaboration between György Kepes and Kevin Lynch
- Wet perception: op art and new tendencies, between the Gestalt and ecological psychology
- The digital image in art: the generative turn, computational and biological
- Epilogue: political paths - past and future.