Why Things Look The Way They Do: Explaining changes in art and design over time, using Darwinian Evolutionary and Cyclical theories - Couverture souple

Wright, Erica

 
9783639132175: Why Things Look The Way They Do: Explaining changes in art and design over time, using Darwinian Evolutionary and Cyclical theories
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ISBN 10 : 3639132173 ISBN 13 : 9783639132175
Editeur : VDM Verlag, 2009

Synopsis

This academically rigorous work uses innovative quantitative and qualitative research methods to examine change happening over time to art and designed objects. Using Darwinian Evolutionary theories, including Natural Selection and Sexual Selection, and Socio-economic Cyclical theories, including those of Kondratiev, this work looks at possible causes of change, bringing together seemingly unrelated theories to form a powerful synthesis. Using images of table lamps and clocks from Littlewood's Mail Order Catalogue 1932-80 to track design change over time, comparisons are made with a broad range of socio-historical events, scientific discoveries, and manufacturing innovations happening throughout the same period, showing synchronicity between events and change, and offering explanations for why this might be. Discussing complex ideas and information in straight forward style, the presentation of Cyclical and Darwinian Evolutionary theories is augmented by an insightful overview of the theories of Lamarck, Spencer and Dawkins, which will interest Biologists as well as Art Historians and all those wanting answers to the profoundly simple question of why things look the way they do.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This academically rigorous work uses innovative quantitative and qualitative research methods to examine change happening over time to art and designed objects. Using Darwinian Evolutionary theories, including Natural Selection and Sexual Selection, and Socio-economic Cyclical theories, including those of Kondratiev, this work looks at possible causes of change, bringing together seemingly unrelated theories to form a powerful synthesis. Using images of table lamps and clocks from Littlewood's Mail Order Catalogue 1932-80 to track design change over time, comparisons are made with a broad range of socio-historical events, scientific discoveries, and manufacturing innovations happening throughout the same period, showing synchronicity between events and change, and offering explanations for why this might be. Discussing complex ideas and information in straight forward style, the presentation of Cyclical and Darwinian Evolutionary theories is augmented by an insightful overview of the theories of Lamarck, Spencer and Dawkins, which will interest Biologists as well as Art Historians and all those wanting answers to the profoundly simple question of why things look the way they do.

Biographie de l'auteur

Dr. Erica Wright is an English Art Historian and Neuraxial Artist, specialising in exploring the visual world, through investigations into Darwinian Natural Selection and Cyclical theories, particularly where they relate to Art and Design, using a variety of creative and innovative research methods as the basis of her ground-breaking theories.

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Éditeur
VDM Verlag
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3639132173
ISBN 13 
9783639132175
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
336
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Personne responsable
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