The life of forms in art modernism, organism, vitality /

"What is form in modern art? How could a work of art achieve its organic life in a world increasingly dominated by mechanism, by new technology? In this new book, Brandon Taylor proposes that biology and the life sciences themselves supplied many of the analogies and metaphors by which modern a...

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Main Author: Taylor, Brandon (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019.
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Table of Contents:
  • List of plates
  • List of figures
  • Prelude: On Life and Form
  • 1. Organicity
  • 2. Biomorphism
  • 3. Ambiguity
  • 4. Monstrosity
  • 5. Dialectics
  • 6. Liquifaction Coda
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • Index