Organic Modernism: From the British Bauhaus to Cybernetics by Terranova, Charissa N.

Organic Modernism: From the British Bauhaus to Cybernetics

When artists, scientists, and designers unite they create new ways of thinking and alternative paths to problem...
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Author: Charissa N. Terranova
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Organic Modernism: From the British Bauhaus to Cybernetics by Terranova, Charissa N.

Organic Modernism: From the British Bauhaus to Cybernetics

CHF 270.61

Organic Modernism: From the British Bauhaus to Cybernetics

CHF 270.61
Author: Charissa N. Terranova
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

When artists, scientists, and designers unite they create new ways of thinking and alternative paths to problem solving.

The first book to trace the story of British "organic modernism", this ground-breaking open access study tells the story of a collective culture of artists, scientists, and designers in 20th century united by a holistic understanding of the organic world and devoted to collaboration, cooperation, and cross-pollination of the arts and biological sciences.

Tracing how artists, scientists, and designers cooperated in various capacities from the Great Depression to postwar cybernetics, this book follows the evolution of philosophical organicism from the British Bauhaus, modern architecture, and surrealism; through to post-war socialism, the welfare state, epigenetics, biology-based art exhibitions; robotic art and design, cybernetics and ecology in art. Reacting against blunt reductionism, organic modernists implemented organicist and emergentist philosophies in scientific labs, design studios, and art ateliers, embracing complexity to solve problems in various scales and arenas, from cells to socialism. Their actions offer a template for finding meaningful agency and problem solving in today's world fraught by global climate disaster, ever-expanding economic inequalities, and backsliding democracy

A sequel to Terranova's Art as Organism: Biology and the Evolution of the Digital Image (2016), Organic Modernism reveals the biological roots of cybernetics in the British context.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Edith O'Donnell Institute of Art History.

Author: Charissa N. Terranova
Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Published: 11/28/2024
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.69lbs
Size: 9.35h x 6.39w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781350227538

About the Author
Charissa N. Terranova is Margaret M. McDermott Distinguished Chair in Art and Aesthetic Studies and Professor of Art and Architectural History at the University of Texas at Dallas, USA

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