On the Animation of the Inorganic: Art, Architecture, and the Extension of Life - Hardcover

Papapetros, Spyros

 
9780226645681: On the Animation of the Inorganic: Art, Architecture, and the Extension of Life
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0226645681 ISBN 13: 9780226645681
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

Throughout human history, people have imagined inanimate objects to have intelligence, language, and even souls. In our secular societies today, we still willingly believe that nonliving objects have lives of their own as we find ourselves interacting with computers and other equipment. In "On the Animation of the Inorganic", Spyros Papapetros examines ideas about simulated movement and inorganic life during and after the turn of the twentieth century - a period of great technical innovation whose effects continue to reverberate today. Exploring key works of art historians such as Aby Warburg, Wilhelm Worringer, and Alois Riegl, as well as architects and artists like Fernand Leger, Mies van der Rohe, and Salvador Dali, Papapetros tracks the evolution of the problem of animation from the fin de siecle through the twentieth century. He argues that empathy - the ability to identify with objects of the external world - was repressed by twentieth-century modernist culture, but it returned, projected onto inorganic objects such as machines, automobiles, and crystal-line skyscrapers. These modern artifacts, he demonstrates, vibrated with energy, life, and desire of their own and had profound effects on people. Subtle and insightful, this beautifully illustrated book will change how we view modernist art, architecture, and their histories.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Spyros Papapetros is assistant professor of history and theory in the School of Architecture and the Program in Media and Modernity at Princeton University.

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Verlag
University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226645681
ISBN 13 
9780226645681
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
412
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