Author: Gyorgy KepesPublisher: MIT Press (MA)
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
The MIT Years, 1945-1977
Author: Gyorgy KepesPublisher: MIT Press (MA)
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
The Mit Years,1945-1977
Author: Gyorgy KepesThe Mit Years, 1945-1977
Author: Gyorgy KepesCartoon Vision
Author: Dan BasharaPublisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520298136
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
In Cartoon Vision Dan Bashara examines American animation alongside the modern design boom of the postwar era. Focusing especially on United Productions of America (UPA), a studio whose graphic, abstract style defined the postwar period, Bashara considers animation akin to a laboratory, exploring new models of vision and space alongside theorists and practitioners in other fields. The links—theoretical, historical, and aesthetic—between animators, architects, designers, artists, and filmmakers reveal a specific midcentury modernism that rigorously reimagined the senses. Cartoon Vision invokes the American Bauhaus legacy of László Moholy-Nagy and György Kepes and advocates for animation’s pivotal role in a utopian design project of retraining the public’s vision to better apprehend a rapidly changing modern world.
Centerbeam
Author: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Advanced Visual StudiesPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262660471
Category : Art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Laser-projected images on moving steam screens, solar-tracked holograms, a 144-foot water prism and helium-lifted sky sculptures are some of the features of "Centerbeam," a kinetic performing group work exhibited at documenta 6in Kessel, Germany (1977) and on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. (1978). Its production involved the participation of 22 artists at MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies—as well as science and engineering consultants. These illustrations, essays, and biographical profiles of the contributors provide a history of the work, documenting the unusual collaborative process that brought it into being.
Gyorgy Kepes
Author: Gyorgy KepesBeautiful Data
Author: Orit HalpernPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822376326
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Beautiful Data is both a history of big data and interactivity, and a sophisticated meditation on ideas about vision and cognition in the second half of the twentieth century. Contending that our forms of attention, observation, and truth are contingent and contested, Orit Halpern historicizes the ways that we are trained, and train ourselves, to observe and analyze the world. Tracing the postwar impact of cybernetics and the communication sciences on the social and human sciences, design, arts, and urban planning, she finds a radical shift in attitudes toward recording and displaying information. These changed attitudes produced what she calls communicative objectivity: new forms of observation, rationality, and economy based on the management and analysis of data. Halpern complicates assumptions about the value of data and visualization, arguing that changes in how we manage and train perception, and define reason and intelligence, are also transformations in governmentality. She also challenges the paradoxical belief that we are experiencing a crisis of attention caused by digital media, a crisis that can be resolved only through intensified media consumption.
The Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists
Author: Ann Lee MorganPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195373219
Category : Art, American
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
In this dictionary of American art, 945 alphabetically arranged entries cover painters, sculptors, graphic artists, photographers, printmakers, and contemporary hybrid artists, along with important aspects of the cultural infrastructure.
Gyorgy Kepes
Author: Gyorgy KepesDynamic Patterns
Author: Karen M'CloskeyPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317401425
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Dynamic Patterns explores the role of patterns in designed landscapes. Patterns are inherently relational, and the search for and the creation of patterns are endemic to many scientific and artistic endeavors. Recent advances in optical tools, sensors, and computing have expanded our understanding of patterns as a link between natural and cultural realms. Looking beyond the surface manifestation of pattern, M’Closkey and VanDerSys delve into a multifaceted examination that explores new avenues for engagement with patterns using digital media. Examining the theoretical implications of pattern-making, they probe the potential of patterns to conjoin landscape’s utilitarian and aesthetic functions. With full color throughout and over one hundred and twenty images, Dynamic Patterns utilizes work from a wide range of artists and designers to demonstrate how novel modes of visualization have facilitated new ways of seeing patterns and therefore of understanding and designing landscapes.