LEADER 03723nam 2200565 450 001 9910154975103321 005 20191015111955.0 010 $a1-350-98541-4 010 $a0-85772-807-5 024 7 $a10.5040/9781350985414 035 $a(CKB)4340000000023086 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4760958 035 $a(OCoLC)965543334 035 $a(CaBNVSL)9781350985414 035 $a(CaBNVSL)mat50985414 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000023086 100 $a20191015e20192016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aArt as organism $ebiology and the evolution of the digital image /$fCharissa N. Terranova 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aLondon, England :$cI.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd,$d2016. 210 2$aLondon, England :$cBloomsbury Publishing,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (338 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aInternational library of modern and contemporary art ;$v32 311 $a1-78453-430-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 256-308) and index. 327 $aPreface: modernism after the affective turn -- Introduction: the haptic unconscious: La?szlo? Moholy-Nagy's organismic aesthetics -- Bauhaus biology: the beginnings of biofunctionalism -- Gyo?rgy Kepes and the light image as bio-image: pop art-and-science, integration, and distribution -- The distributed image of the city: the collaboration between Gyo?rgy 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. 330 8 $aWhat if modernism had been characterised by evolving, interconnected and multi-sensory images rather than by the monolithic objects often described by its artists and theorists? In this groundbreaking book, Charissa Terranova unearths a forgotten narrative of modernism, which charts the influence that biology, General Systems Theory and cybernetics had on art in the twentieth century. From kinetic and interactive art to early computer art and installations spanning an entire city, she shows that the digital image was a rich and expansive artistic medium of modernism. This book links the emergence of the digital image to the dispersion of biocentric aesthetic philosophies developed by Bauhaus pedagogue Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, from 1920s Berlin to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1970s. It uncovers seminal but overlooked references to biology, the organism, feedback loops, emotions and the Gestalt, along with an intricate genealogy of related thinkers across disciplines. Terranova reinterprets major art movements such as the Bauhaus, Op Art and Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.), by referencing contemporary insights from architects, embryologists, electrical engineers and computer scientists, among others. This book reveals the complex connections between visual culture, science and technology that comprise the deep history of twentieth-century art. 410 0$aInternational library of modern and contemporary art ;$v32. 606 $aArt and biology 606 $aModern art$y20th century 606 $aModernism (Art) 606 $2Theory of art 615 0$aArt and biology. 615 0$aModern art 615 0$aModernism (Art) 676 $a709.04 700 $aTerranova$b Charissa N.$01121440 712 02$aBloomsbury (Firm), 801 0$bEYM 801 1$bCaBNVSL 801 2$bCaBNVSL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910154975103321 996 $aArt as organism$92982739 997 $aUNINA