On the Animation of the Inorganic - Art, Architecture, and the Extension of Life

Zusammenfassung Throughout human history! people have imagined inanimate objects to have intelligence! language! and even souls. This book examines ideas about simulated movement and inorganic life during and after the turn of the twentieth century - a period of great technical innovation whose effects continue to reverberate today.

Product details

• Authors: Spyros Papapetros, Papapetros Spyros
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.09.2012
• EAN: 9780226645681
• ISBN: 978-0-226-64568-1
• No. of pages: 440
• Dimensions: 187 mm x 265 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Architecture, ART / History / General, ARCHITECTURE / General, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -