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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Terranova, Charissa N. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, [2016]
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.