Main entry:

Papapetros, Spyros.

Title & Author:

On the animation of the inorganic : art, architecture, and the extension of life / Spyros Papapetros.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2012.

Description:

xvii, 380 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-361) and index.
Animation victims: an abridged history of animated response -- Animated history -- The movement of accessories -- Fabric extensions and textual supplements from modern and antique fragments -- The movement of snakes -- Pneumatic impulses and bygone appendages from Philo to Warburg -- The afterlife of crystals -- Art historical biology and the animation of the inorganic -- Inorganic culture -- Nudes in the forest -- Models, sciences, and legends in a landscape by Léger -- Malicious houses -- Animism and animosity in German architecture and film from Mies to Murnau -- Daphne's legacy -- Architecture, psychoanalysis, and petrification.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

Exploring key works of art historians such as Aby Warburg, Wilhelm Worringer, and Alois Riegl, as well as architects and artists like Fernand Léger, Mies van der Rohe, and Salvador Dalí, this book tracks the evolution of the problem of animation from the fin de siècle through the twentieth century. It argues that empathy--the ability to identify with objects of the external world--was repressed by twentieth-century modernist culture, but it returned, projected onto inorganic objects such as machines, automobiles, and crystalline skyscrapers.

ISBN:

9780226645681 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0226645681 (cloth ; alkaline paper)

Subject:

Nature (Aesthetics)
Animation (Cinematography)
Art Philosophy 20th century.
Nature (Esthétique)
Animation (Cinéma)
Art Philosophie 20e siècle.
animations (visual works)
Art Philosophy.
Kunst
Das Organische
Natur
Naturen.
Konst teori, filosofi.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 279431
Call No.: BIB 215462
Status: Available