Reconciling Art and Technology - A Shared Cognitive History

This book examines two venerable cultures, art and technology, and uses the young 'interdiscipline' of cognitive history combined with case studies of both ancient and modern artifacts to explore, and unveil, some of the bridges by which this reconciliation of two seemingly distant and oppositional cultures can be affected.

List of contents

1. ARTIFACTS = ART-WORKS + TECH-WORKS 2. TO KNOW AN ARTIFACT 3. THE PROBLEM-CENTRIC VIEW 4. THE UNIT OF HISTORY MAKING 5. SHARING A METAPHOR 6. NOT BY UTILITY ALONE

About the author

Subrata Dasgupta is Professor Emeritus in the School of Computing & Informatics, and the former Computer Science Trust Fund Eminent Scholar Chair and Director, Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA. He has authored over 80 scholarly papers/articles and 20 books on the cognitive, historical, and computational aspects of creative phenomena in science, technology, intellectual movements and art, including most recently, The Renaissance Considered as a Creative Phenomenon (Routledge 2022).

Summary

This book examines two venerable cultures, art and technology, and uses the young ‘interdiscipline’ of cognitive history combined with case studies of both ancient and modern artifacts to explore, and unveil, some of the bridges by which this reconciliation of two seemingly distant and oppositional cultures can be affected.

Product details

• Authors: Subrata Dasgupta, Dasgupta Subrata
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.05.2024
• EAN: 9781032673363
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3267336-3
• No. of pages: 262
• Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); HISTORY / General, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Historiography, History of Science, Social and cultural history, Art;Technology;Tech