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On the Animation of the Inorganic: Art, Architecture, and the Extension of Life
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Associate Professor Spyros Papapetros
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Throughout human history, people have imagined inanimate objects to have intelligence, language, and even souls. In our secular societies today, we still willingly believe that nonliving objects have lives of their own as we find ourselves interacting with computers and other equipment. In ""On the Animation of the Inorganic,"" Spyros Papapetros examines ideas about simulated movement and inorganic life during and after the turn of the twentieth centuryOCoa period of great technical innovation whose effects continue to reverberate today.Exploring key works of art historians such as Aby Warburg, Wilhelm Worringer, and Alois Riegl, as well as architects and artists like Fernand L(r)ger, Mies van der Rohe, and Salvador Dal, Papapetros tracks the evolution of the problem of animation from the fin de si cle through the twentieth century. He argues that empathyOCothe ability to identify with objects of the external worldOCowas repressed by twentieth-century modernist culture, but it returned, projected onto inorganic objects such as machines, automobiles, and crystalline skyscrapers. These modern artifacts, he demonstrates, vibrated with energy, life, and desire of their own and had profound effects on people. Subtle and insightful, this beautifully illustrated book will change how we view modernist art, architecture, and their histories.
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The University of Chicago Press
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14 May 2014
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411
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978-0-2266-4567-4
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philosophy / aesthetics
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