"Since 1900, the connections between art and technology with nature have become increasingly inextricable. Through a selection of innovative readings by international scholars, this book presents the first investigation of the intersections between art, technology and nature in post-medieval times. Transdisciplinary in approach, this volume’s 14 essays explore art, technology and nature’s shifting constellations that are discernible at t ..."
"Since 1900, the connections between art and technology with nature have become increasingly inextricable. Through a selection of innovative readings by international scholars, this book presents the first investigation of the intersections between art, technology and nature in post-medieval times. Transdisciplinary in approach, this volumea (TM)s 14 essays explore art, technology and naturea (TM)s shifting constellations that are disce ..."
"As our ideas of the human have come under increasing challenging – from technological change, from medical advances, from the existential threat of climate crisis amongst many other things – the 'posthuman' has become an increasingly central topic in the Humanities. Bringing together leading scholars from across the world and a wide range of disciplines, this is the most comprehensive available survey of cutting edge contemporary schola ..."
"Technology and landscape have long been understood as inherently antagonistic concepts, reflective of the encroachments of civilization on the natural world. Yet as the essays in this volume make clear, the tension between culture and nature is more apparent than real. Even in preindustrial societies, where the dominant technologies are agricultural, it would be impossible to envision a landscape unshaped by human contact. Drawing on ev ..."
The labyrinthine nest(1st Edition) The art of Doris Bloom by JacobWamberg, Doris Bloom Paperback, 16 Pages, Published 1991 by Taurus ISBN-13: 978-0-947046-34-7, ISBN: 0-947046-34-8
"In writing about Pistorius, Amanda Booher noted that his “super-ability not only
excludes him from competition, but constructs him as a kind of cheater
circumventing the 'true spirit of fair play and equality'” (Booher 2011: 6). The
ideals of fair ..."
"Ubiquitous computing and our cultural life promise to become completely interwoven: technical currents feed into our screen culture of digital television, video, home computers, movies, and high-resolution advertising displays. Technology has become at once larger and smaller, mobile and ambient. In Throughout, leading writers on new media -- including Jay David ..."
"In spite of the steadily expanding concept of art in the Western world, art made in twentieth-century totalitarian regimes -- notably nazi Germany, fascist Italy and the communist East Bloc countries -- is still to a surprising degree excluded from main stream art history and the exhibits of art museums. In contrast to earlier art made to promote princely or ecclesiastical power, this kind of visual culture seems to somehow not fulfil t ..."
Landscape As World Picture Tracing Cultural Evolution in Images by JacobWamberg, Gaye Kynoch Hardcover, 1,125 Pages, Published 2009 by Aarhus University Press ISBN-13: 978-87-7934-287-3, ISBN: 87-7934-287-6
"These two volumes present a new and comprehensive theory concerning the manner in which landscapes in Western pictorial art may be interpreted in relation to the cultures that created them. Its point of departure is a hitherto unexplored developmental pattern that characterises landscape representation from Palaeolithic cave paintings through to 19th-century modernity. A structuralist comparison between this pattern and three additional ..."
"If biotechnology can be used to upgrade humans physically and mentally, should it be used at all? And, if so, to what extent? How will biotechnology affect societal cohesion? Can the development be controlled, or is this a Pandoras box that should remain closed? These are but a few of the perplex questions facing scientists as a result of the increasing ability of technology to change biology and, in turn, profoundly change human living ..."
"Partly because of alchemy's dismissal from the Parnassus of rational sciences, the interplay between this esoteric knowledge and the visual arts is still a surprisingly neglected research area. This collection of articles covering the time span from the late middle ages to the 20th century intends, however, to challenge the current neglect. Areas on which its 12 authors cast new light include alchemical gender symbolism in Renaissance, ..."
"This guide to the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's acclaimed sculpture park features work by Max Ernst, Henry Moore, Alexander Calder, Jean Miro, Jean Dubuffet and many others. A handy map is included."
"The second publication in the "Louisiana Library" series, from Denmark's Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, is an in-depth look at that institution's impressive Asger Jorn collection. Jorn, a founding member of COBRA (an acronym for Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam), remains one of Denmark's most influential painters. He was also a founding member, with Guy Debord, of the Situationist International (SI). There has been a tendency to view ..."
"Danish artist Marco Evaristti is a risk-taker who likes to place himself and the viewer in extremely dangerous real-life situations as part of his artwork. His art calls into question political methods and claims, taking up themes such as territorial power, pollution, possessiveness, and judgments over life and death."
"Between the purple foil stamped covers of this thoroughly engaging catalogue lay a plethora of installation shots and well chosen details of the more-than-100 sculptural works that went into Tyson's recent show at Denmark's Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. Some examples include a giant, hairy, very real looking excised beer belly (complete with bandaid) set alongside a cigar and some beer cans on an oriental rug; a stack of books with a ..."
Landscape as World Picture Tracing Cultural Evolution in Images by JacobWamberg Hardcover, 900 Pages, Published 2008 by Aarhus University Press ISBN-13: 978-87-7934-232-3, ISBN: 87-7934-232-9
"Landscape as World Picture Present a theory concerning the manner in which landscapes in Western pictorial art may be interpreted in relation to the cultures that created them. This title covers developmental pattern that characterises landscape representation from Palaeolithic cave paintings through to 19th-century modernity. Full description"
"From the baroque to contemporary art and from painting, sculpture and installation to artworks that redefine the boundaries for art and nature, this book looks at the garden as symbol of humankind’s changing relationship to nature.It includes works by artists from a broad span of history, including Claude Lorrain, Caspar David Friedrich, Paul Gauguin, Nicolas Poussin, John Constable, Edvard Munch, Vilhelm Hammershøi, Paul Klee, Jean Arp ..."