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Wireless Imagination addresses perhaps the most conspicuous silence in contemporary theory and art criticism, the silence that surrounds the polyphonous histories of audio art. Composed of both original essays and several newly translated documents, this book provides a close audition to some of the most telling and soundful moments in the "deaf century," conceived and performed by such artists as Raymond Roussel, Antonin Artaud, Marcel Duchamp, Andre Breton, John Cage, Hugo Ball, Kurt Weill, and William Burroughs.From the late nineteenth century to the 1960s, the essays uncover the...

This interdisciplinary history and theory of sound in the arts reads the twentieth century by listening to it--to the emphatic and exceptional sounds of modernism and those on the cusp of postmodernism, recorded sound, noise, silence, the fluid sounds of immersion and dripping, and the meat voices of viruses, screams, and bestial cries. Focusing on Europe in the first half of the century and the United States in the postwar years, Douglas Kahn explores aural activities in literature, music, visual arts, theater, and film. Placing aurality at the center of the history of the arts, he...

This is the companion volume to the authors' groundbreaking Symmetries of Culture, the classic reference for symmetry analysis of pattern for anthropologists, archaeologists, art historians, mathematicians, and designers. Central to symmetry analysis is the use of symmetry in the more precise sense of its geometrical isometries in contrast to its everyday meaning of balance. For this volume, Donald Crowe and Dorothy Washburn invited colleagues from several disciplines to apply the method of symmetry analysis to actual case studies from cultures around the world.

The essays...

Unprecedented in its scope, Cross-Cultural Urban Design: Global or Local Practice? explores how urban design has responded to recent trends towards global standardisation. Following analysis of its practice in the local domain, the book looks at how urban planning and design should be repositioned for the future.

It looks at:

• population movement
• urbanization
• suburbanization
• tourism
• commercialization
• environmental degradation
• flows of capital.

Mapping out how urban...

The construction principles of Celtic art were re-discovered in the middle of the 20th century by George Bain. Until his writing, the intricate knots, interlacings, and spirals used in illuminating The Book of Kells and in decorating craftwork and jewelry seemed almost impossible, "the work of angels." In this pioneering work, George Bain shows how simple principles, no more difficult than those used in needlecraft, were used to create some of the finest artistic works ever seen. He also explains how you can use these principles in re-creating artifacts and in creating your own Celtic...

A unique history of the international communications and design agency Imagination, founded by Gary Withers in London in 1978

• Features over 30 projects organized into thematic chapters reflecting their aims: to inform, entertain, inspire, persuade and amaze
• Imagination's work ranges from architecture to lighting and multimedia, in projects such as the Tate Modern launch, branding for Ericsson and interiors for Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam
• Includes insight by Mike...

Souhrnný přehled 100 nejzajímavějších a nejoriginálnějších produktových designérů světa, kteří byli vybráni deseti mezinárodně uznávanými odborníky na design. Tato kniha přináší pokroky a počiny realizované od publikování předešlé úspěšné publikace Spoon (Lžíce). Práce každého designéra je prezentována množstvím barevných obrázků a je doprovázena komentářem odborníka,...