Art & Technology in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Couverture rigide

Francastel, Pierre

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1890951021 ISBN 13 : 9781890951023

Editeur : Zone Books, 2000

Synopsis

A nuanced study of the effects of technology on the traditional concerns of artists and other symbol-makers.

Although the work of Pierre Francastel (1900-1970) has long carried the label "sociology of art," it bears little resemblance to anything conventionally sociological. For too long Francastel has been unavailable to English-language readers, and hence known only through erroneous and secondhand characterizations. This translation of Art and Technology should open the way for a rediscovery and reconsideration of this brilliant, often misunderstood thinker. Unlike adherents of the dominant schools of Anglo-American and German art history, Francastel was not obsessed with establishing a quasi-scientific methodology as the basis for his studies. But as art history itself is being reshaped by the culture of technology, his nuanced meditations from the 1950s on the intricate intersection of technology and art gain heightened value. The concrete objects that Francastel examines are for the most part from the architecture and design of the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth century. Through them he engages his central problem: the abrupt historical collision between traditional symbol-making activities of human society and the appearance in the nineteenth century of unprecedented technological and industrial capabilities and forms. Francastel's vision of the indeterminate, shifting relation between the aesthetic and the technological will be of crucial interest to anyone interested in the history of art, architecture, and design.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Pierre Francastel taught at the Ecole Practique des Haute Etudes. His works include Les Architectes célèbres, Etudes de sociologie de l'art, Figure et le lieu, and Peinture et societé.

Yve-Alain Bois studied at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes under the guidance of Roland Barthes and Hubert Damisch. A founder of the French journal Macula, Bois is currently a professor in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Zone Books
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1890951021
• ISBN 13: 9781890951023
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible