George Kubler: The Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of Things (1962–) [EN, ES, IT, PT]
Filed under book | Tags: · architecture, art, art history, history, time
“When it was released in 1962, The Shape of Time presented a radically new approach to the study of art history. Drawing upon new insights in fields such as anthropology and linguistics, George Kubler replaced the notion of style with the idea of a linked succession of works distributed in time as recognizably early and late versions of the same action. The result was a view of historical sequence aligned on continuous change more than upon the concept of style–the then usual basis for histories of art.”
Publisher Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1962
ISBN 0300001444, 9780300001440
xii+136 pages
Reviews: Priscilla Colt (Art Journal 1963), John Howland Rowe (American Anthropologist 1963), Jan Bialostocki (Art Bulletin 1965).
Commentary: Robert Smithson (Arts Magazine 1966), Pamela M. Lee (Grey Room 2001), Mary Miller (Art Journal 2009), Jarrett Earnest (Brooklyn Rail 2014).
Wikipedia
Publisher (2008 Edition)
The Shape of Time (English, 1962, 7 MB, updated on 2013-9-13, OCR’d version via mutewar)
La configuración del tiempo (Spanish, trans. Jorge Lujan Muñoz, 1975, 43 MB, added on 2015-12-10)
La forma del tempo (Italian, trans. Giuseppe Casatello, 1976, added on 2015-12-10)
A forma do tempo (Portuguese, 1990, 11 MB, added on 2015-12-10)
See also The Shape of Time. Reconsidered, 1982.
Comment (1)Sven-Olov Wallenstein: Nihilism, Art, and Technology (2010)
Filed under thesis | Tags: · aesthetics, architecture, art, art history, avant-garde, nihilism, philosophy, technology
Beginning in an analysis of three paradigmatic instances of the encounter between art and technology in modernism—the invention of photography, the step beyond art in Futurism and Constructivism, and the interpretation of technology in debates on architectural theory in the 1920s and ’30s—this book analyzes three philosophical responses to the question of nihilism—those of Walter Benjamin, Ernst Jünger, and Martin Heidegger—all of which are characterized by an avant-garde sensibility that looks to art as a way to counter the crisis of modernity.
These responses are then brought to bear on the work of the architect Mies van der Rohe, whose “silence”—understood as a withdrawal of language, sense, and aesthetic perception—is analyzed as a key problem in the interpretation of the legacy of modernism. From this, a different understanding of nihilism, art, and technology emerges. These concepts form a field of constant modulation, which implies that the foundations of critical theory must be subjected to a historical analysis that acknowledges them as ongoing processes of construction, and that also accounts for the capacity of technologies and artistic practices to intervene in the formation of philosophical concepts.
Originally presented as a compilation thesis in theoretical philosophy, the work was published as a book by Axl Books in 2011.
Doctoral Thesis
Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University, 2010
ISBN 9789174470734
92 pages
Publisher (Thesis)
Publisher (Book)
PDF (Thesis; without images)
Comment (0)László Moholy-Nagy: Von Material zu Architektur (1929–) [DE, EN]
Filed under book | Tags: · architecture, art, bauhaus, photography
László Moholy-Nagy coined the term “the New Vision” for his belief that photography could create a whole new way of seeing the outside world that the human eye could not. His theory of art and teaching is summed up in this book.
Publisher Albert Langen, Munich, 1929
Bauhausbücher series, 14
241 pages
Facsimile reprint
Edited by Hans M. Wingler
Publisher Florian Kupferberg, Mainz and Berlin, 1968
Neue Bauhausbücher series
ISBN 3786114668, 9783786114666
251 pages
via Di Tutiya
English edition
Translated by Daphne M. Hoffman
First published as The New Vision: From Material to Architecture, Breuer Warren and Putnam, New York, 1930
Expanded and revised edition as The New Vision and Abstract of an Artist
Publisher George Wittenborn, New York, 1947
92 pages
Von Material zu Architektur (German, 1929, PDF, JPG, in Heidelberg U Library, added on 2019-7-7)
Von Material zu Architektur (German, facs.repr., 1929/1968, 21 MB, no OCR)
The New Vision and Abstract of an Artist (English, 1930/1947, 10 MB, no OCR, added on 2015-2-5)
See also other titles in Bauhaus Books series and other works by Moholy-Nagy on Monoskop wiki.
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