An Analysis of the Life-form in Art
Author: Harrison Allen
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2024-03-01
Total Pages: 77
ISBN-13: 3385362482
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Author: Harrison Allen
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2024-03-01
Total Pages: 77
ISBN-13: 3385362482
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Author: Harrison Allen
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2016-09-16
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9781333630782
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excerpt from An Analysis of the Life-Form in Art I Attitudes and Figures of the Morse, J. E. Gray, Pipe. Zool. Soc. Of Lond. 1853, p. 112. The works of that famous chirurgeon, Ambroise Pare, (trans) London, 1649, p. 45. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Harrison Allen
Publisher: Palala Press
Published: 2016-05-16
Total Pages: 78
ISBN-13: 9781356722761
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Henri Focillon
Publisher:
Published: 1948
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780942299571
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Considers the problem of stylistic change in art, arguing that art is not reducible to external political, social, or economic determinants
Author: Stefan Helmreich
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2015-10-27
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 0691164819
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What is life? What is water? What is sound? In Sounding the Limits of Life, anthropologist Stefan Helmreich investigates how contemporary scientists—biologists, oceanographers, and audio engineers—are redefining these crucial concepts. Life, water, and sound are phenomena at once empirical and abstract, material and formal, scientific and social. In the age of synthetic biology, rising sea levels, and new technologies of listening, these phenomena stretch toward their conceptual snapping points, breaching the boundaries between the natural, cultural, and virtual. Through examinations of the computational life sciences, marine biology, astrobiology, acoustics, and more, Helmreich follows scientists to the limits of these categories. Along the way, he offers critical accounts of such other-than-human entities as digital life forms, microbes, coral reefs, whales, seawater, extraterrestrials, tsunamis, seashells, and bionic cochlea. He develops a new notion of "sounding"—as investigating, fathoming, listening—to describe the form of inquiry appropriate for tracking meanings and practices of the biological, aquatic, and sonic in a time of global change and climate crisis. Sounding the Limits of Life shows that life, water, and sound no longer mean what they once did, and that what count as their essential natures are under dynamic revision.
Author: Henri Focillon
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1989-03
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this text, Focillon insists that art and its meanings are an inherently dynamic system and that the history of art is one of instabilities, fluctuations and discontinuities. Artworks are never static empirical entities or pure optical presences but rather the virtual traces of a ceaseless process of becoming.
Author: Sam Rose
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2019-05-10
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 0271084308
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This important new study reevaluates British art writing and the rise of formalism in the visual arts from 1900 to 1939. Taking Roger Fry as his starting point, Sam Rose rethinks how ideas about form influenced modernist culture and the movement’s significance to art history today. In the context of modernism, formalist critics are often thought to be interested in art rather than life, a stance exemplified in their support for abstract works that exclude the world outside. But through careful attention to early twentieth-century connoisseurship, aesthetics, art education, design, and art in colonial Nigeria and India, Rose builds an expanded account of form based on its engagement with the social world. Art and Form thus opens discussions on a range of urgent topics in art writing, from its history and the constructions of high and low culture to the idea of global modernism. Rose demonstrates the true breadth of formalism and shows how it lends a new richness to thought about art and visual culture in the early to mid-twentieth century. Accessibly written and analytically sophisticated, Art and Form opens exciting new paths of inquiry into the meaning and lasting importance of formalism and its ties to modernism. It will be invaluable for scholars and enthusiasts of art history and visual culture.