Artifice and design : art and technology in human experience / Barry Allen.

Main entry:

Allen, Barry, 1957-

Title & Author:

Artifice and design : art and technology in human experience / Barry Allen.

Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008.

Description:

213 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-207) and index.
Introduction : Art and technology in human experience -- The human -- The technical -- The aesthetic -- Technology -- Art.

Summary:

"In a book about the aesthetics of technological objects and the relationship between technical and artistic accomplishment, Barry Allen develops the philosophical implications of a series of interrelated concepts - knowledge, artifact, design, tool, art, and technology - and uses them to explore parallel questions about artistry in technology and technics in art. This may be seen at the heart of Artifice and Design in Allen's discussion of seven bridges: he focuses at length on two New York bridges - the Hell Gate Bridge and the Bayonne Bridge - and makes use of original sources for insight into the designers' ideas about the aesthetic dimensions of their work." "Allen starts from the conviction that art and technology must be treated together, as two aspects of a common, technical human nature. The topics covered in Artifice and Design are wide-ranging and interdisciplinary, drawing from evolutionary biology, cognitive psychology, and the history and anthropology of art and technology. The book concludes that it is a mistake to think of Art as something subjective, or as an arbitrary social representation, and of Technology as an instrumental form of purposive rationality."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9780801446825 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0801446821 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Art and technology Philosophy.
Technology Aesthetics.
Technology Philosophy.
Art Philosophy.
Bridges Design and construction.
Art et technologie Philosophie.
Technologie Esthétique.
Technologie Philosophie.
Art Philosophie.
Ponts Conception et construction.
Kunst
Technik
Ästhetik
Philosophie
Teknik teori, filosofi.
Konst och teknik.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 257806
Call No.: BIB 188347
Status: Available

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