Title & Author:

Art, technology and nature : Renaissance to postmodernity / edited by Camilla Skovbjerg Paldam and Jacob Wamberg.

Publication:

Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2015.

Description:

xiv, 292 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Series:

Science and the arts since 1750

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-272) and index.
Introduction : A short history of art, technology and nature / Jacob Wamberg and Camilla Skovberg Paldam -- Assistance/interruption : art and technology interlacing with nature. Creatio ex ligno : the characteristics of wooden Renaissance dolls / Markus Rath ; Genesis of images : intersections of art and alchemy in early modern Europe / Lisbet Tarp ; Living jewels, creepy crawlers and robobugs : insects in the Winderkammer, surrealism and contemporary art / Marion Endt-Jones ; Grotesque! Strategies of figurative genesis in the sixteenth century and in the surrealism of the 1920s and 1930s / Maria Fabricus Hansen and Camilla Skovberg Paldam -- Hermeneutics : art and technology representing nature. Applied science in the Renaissance art academy / Bjørn Okholm Skaarup ; Artisanal epistemologies and the artless of post-Tridentine painting / Claire Farago ; Printing plants : the technology of nature printing in eighteenth-century Spain / Alisa Luxenberg ; The microscope as a musical instrument : art, hermeneutics and technoscience / Pernille Leth-Espensen ; How to experience and relate to climate change : the role of digital climate art / Søren Bro Pold and Christian Ulrik Andersen -- Localization/exposure : art and technology revealing paradigms of nature. A perfectly nebulous experiment : C.T.R. Wilson's cloud chamber / Kristine Nielsen ; Images of rain between representation, technology and nature / Hanna Johansson ; Crossovers : the art of Rodney Graham, Roni Horn and Diana Thater between technology and nature / Hans Dickel ; Haacke, systems and 'nature' around 1970 : an art of systems/systematic art / Caroline A. Jones ; It is the city that makes the walking what it is : interview with Olafur Eliasson / Jacob Wamberg.
Dust jacket.

ISBN:

9781472411723 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
1472411722 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Art and technology.
Nature (Aesthetics)
Technology and civilization.
Natural history in art.
Art et technologie.
Nature (Esthétique)
Technologie et civilisation.
20.02 philosophy and theory of the art sciences.
Künste
Natur
Technologie
Konst och teknik.
Naturen estetiska aspekter.
Teknik och samhälle.

Added entries:

Paldam, Camilla Skovbjerg, editor.
Wamberg, Jacob, editor.
Science and the arts since 1750.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 290697
Call No.: BIB 233830
Status: Available