1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462979303321

Titolo

Pattern [[electronic resource] ] : ornament, structure, and behavior / / edited by Andrea Gleiniger and Georg Vrachliotis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel ; ; Boston, : Birkhauser, c2009

ISBN

3-0346-0887-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (108 p.)

Collana

Context architecture

Altri autori (Persone)

GleinigerAndrea

VrachliotisGeorg

Disciplina

745.4

Soggetti

Architecture

Repetitive patterns (Decorative arts)

Architecture - Philosophy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Inhalt -- EDITORIAL / Gleiniger, Andrea / Vrachliotis, Georg -- NEW PATTERNS? OLD PATTERNS? - ON THE EMOTIONAL APPEAL OF ORNAMENT / Gleiniger, Andrea -- "AND IT WAS OUT OF THAT THAT I BEGAN DREAMING ABOUT PATTERNS..." ON THINKING IN STRUCTURES, DESIGNING WITH PATTERNS, AND THE DESIRE FOR BEAUTY AND MEANING IN ARCHITECTURE / Vrachliotis, Georg -- ARCHITECTURAL ALGORITHMS AND THE RENAISSANCE OF THE DESIGN PATTERN / Scheurer, Fabian -- WAYFINDING STRATEGIES AND BEHAVIORAL PATTERNS IN BUILT SPACES / Hölscher, Christoph -- PATTERNS IN THE BRAIN NEUROSCIENTIFIC NOTES ON THE PATTERN CONCEPT / Christen, Markus -- REGULAR IRREGULAR - ON THE FLEETING QUALITY OF PATTERN IN CONTEMPORARY MUSIC / Mundry, Isabel -- SELECTED LITERATURE -- ILLUSTRATION CREDITS -- BIOGRAPHIES

Sommario/riassunto

As models and paradigms, patterns have been helping to orient architects since the Middle Ages. But patterns are also the basis of the history of ornament, an aesthetic phenomenon that links all times and cultures at a fundamental level. Ornament - and hence pattern as well - was abolished by the avant-garde in the first half of the twentieth



century, but the notion of pattern has taken on new meaning and importance since the 1960's. Complexity research has ultimately shown that even highly complex, dynamic patterns may be based on simple behavioral rules, and that has allowed the notions of pattern and pattern formation to take on new meanings, that are also central for architecture. Today the use of generative computerized methods is opening up new ways of talking about an idea that is becoming increasingly abstract and dynamic. Pattern explores the question: what are the notions of pattern that must be discussed in the context of contemporary architecture?

Complex patterns are founded on simple rules. Pattern and pattern formation are of new, important significance as the fundamental principles of systematization and description of very complex processes and phenomena. Which idea of pattern has to be used in the architectural discourse today?

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996411336203316

Autore

Peers Glenn

Titolo

Animism, materiality and museums : how do Byzantine things feel? / / Glenn Peers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leeds : , : Arc Humanities Press, , 2020

©2020

ISBN

1-942401-73-6

Edizione

[New edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (178 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ;

Collana

Collection development, cultural heritage, and digital humanities

Classificazione

Internet Access

Disciplina

709.0214

Soggetti

Art, Byzantine

Animism in art

Art, Byzantine - Exhibitions

Geographical Subject Heading

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical material and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part 1. Animate Materialities from Icon to Cathedral



-- Chapter 1. Showing Byzantine Materiality -- Chapter 2. The Byzantine Material Symphony: Sound, Stuff, and Things -- Part 2. Byzantine Things in the World: Animating Museum Spaces -- Chapter 3. Prelude on Transfiguring Exhibition -- Chapter 4. Transfiguring Materialities: Relational Abstraction in Byzantium and Its Exhibition -- Chapter 5. Framing and Conserving Byzantine Art: Experiences of Relative Identity -- Part 3. Pushing the Envelope, Breaking Out: Making, Materials, Materiality -- Chapter 6. Angelic Anagogy, Silver, and Matter's Mire -- Chapter 7. Late Antique Making and Wonder -- Chapter 8. Senses' Other Sides -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index Contents [delete if appropriate].

Sommario/riassunto

Byzantine art is normally explained as devotional, historical, highly intellectualized, but this book argues for an experiential necessity for a fuller, deeper, more ethical approach to this art. Written in response to an exhibition the author curated at The Menil Collection in 2013, these essays challenge us to search for novel ways to explore and interrogate the art of this distant culture. They marshal diverse disciplines-modern art, environmental theory, anthropology-to argue that Byzantine culture formed a special kind of Christian animism. While completely foreign to our world, that animism still holds important lessons for approaches to our own relations to the world. Mutual probings of subject and art, of past and present, arise in these essays-some new and some previously published-and new explanations therefore open up that will interest historians of art, museum professionals, and anyone interested in how art makes and remakes the world.

Byzantine art is normally explained as devotional, historical, highly intellectualized, but this book argues for an experiential necessity for a fuller, deeper, more ethical approach to this art. Written in response to an exhibition the author curated at The Menil Collection in 2013, this monograph challenges us to search for novel ways to explore and interrogate the art of this distant culture. They marshal diverse disciplines-modern art, environmental theory, anthropology-to argue that Byzantine culture formed a special kind of Christian animism. While completely foreign to our world, that animism still holds important lessons for approaches to our own relations to the world. Mutual probings of subject and art, of past and present, arise in these essays-some new and some previously published-and new explanations therefore open up that will interest historians of art, museum professionals, and anyone interested in how art makes and remakes the world.