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Poetics and praxis 'after' objectivism
\"Poetics and Praxis 'After' Objectivism includes an introduction, ten chapters, and a roundtable afterward--all of which have been written specifically for this volume. The collection examines late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century poetic praxis within and against the dynamic, disparate legacy of Objectivism and the Objectivists. This is the first volume in the field to study this vital legacy through current poetic praxis, renewing the complexities of the past in terms of the difficulties of the present. The book's scope investigates the continuing relevance of the Objectivist ethos to poetic praxis in our time, examining and exemplifying generative intersections of creativity and critique\" -- Provided by publisher.
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Epic Visions
This wide-ranging, interdisciplinary collection explores different ways of visualising Greek and Roman epic from Homer to Statius, in both ancient and modern culture. The book presents new perspectives on Homer, Virgil, Ovid, Lucan, Valerius Flaccus and Statius, and covers the re-working of epic matter in tragedy, opera, film, late antique speeches of praise, story-boarding, sculpture and wall-painting. The chapters use a variety of methods to address the relationship between narrative and visuality, exploring how and why epic has inspired artists, authors and directors and offering fresh visual interpretations of epic texts. Themes and issues discussed include: intermediality, ekphrasis and panegyric, illusion and deception, imagery and deferral, alienation and involvement, the multiplicity of possible visual responses to texts, three-dimensionality, miniaturisation, epic as cultural capital, and the specificity of genres, both literary and visual.
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Objects Observed
Objects Observed explores the central place given to the object by a number of poets in France and in America in the twentieth century. John C. Stout provides comprehensive examinations of Pierre Reverdy, Francis Ponge, Jean Follain, Guillevic, and Jean Tortel. Stout argues that the object furnishes these poets with a catalyst for creating a new poetics and for reflecting on lyric as a genre. In France, the object has been central to a broad range of aesthetic practices, from the era of Cubism and Surrealism to the 1990s. In the heyday of American Modernism, several major poets foregrounded the object in their work; however, in postwar twentieth-century America, poets moved away from a focus on the object. Objects Observed illuminates the variety of aesthetic practices and positions in French and American poets from the years of high Modernism (1909–1930) to the 1990s.
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Semiologie du bric-a-brac : les objets, marqueurs d'identite, dans l'oeuvre de Yasmina Reza
Il y a maintes facons de donner une identite a des personnages de romans ou de theatre : par la description, par leurs paroles, par leurs gestes, et par les objets qui peuvent representer de veritables mises en scene de l'identite de leurs proprietaires. Yamina Reza saisit la centralite de la culture materielle dans la vie de ses contemporains et peuple son univers d'objets qui signalent tantot la banalite, tantot l'irruption du drame. Parfois, a rebours de ces extremes, ce sont plutot des marques de distinction. Tous, y compris les photographies qui ont un statut a part en tant que supports tangibles de l'intangible, sont autant de signes identitaires. Dans cet article, sans tomber dans l'epuisement systematique du reel a la Georges Perec, on explore les objets presents dans les recits et pieces de theatre de Yasmina Reza au prisme d'une volonte auctoriale de leur faire incarner de multiples significations.
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Making
Making creates knowledge, builds environments and transforms lives. Anthropology, archaeology, art and architecture are all ways of making, and all are dedicated to exploring the conditions and potentials of human life. In this exciting book, Tim Ingold ties the four disciplines together in a way that has never been attempted before. In a radical departure from conventional studies that treat art and architecture as compendia of objects for analysis, Ingold proposes an anthropology and archaeology not of but with art and architecture. He advocates a way of thinking through making in which sentient practitioners and active materials continually answer to, or 'correspond', with one another in the generation of form.
Making offers a series of profound reflections on what it means to create things, on materials and form, the meaning of design, landscape perception, animate life, personal knowledge and the work of the hand. It draws on examples and experiments ranging from prehistoric stone tool-making to the building of medieval cathedrals, from round mounds to monuments, from flying kites to winding string, from drawing to writing. The book will appeal to students and practitioners alike, with interests in social and cultural anthropology, archaeology, architecture, art and design, visual studies and material culture.
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Reproducing Images and Texts / La Reproduction des images et des textes
This volume explores how reproduction and reproducibility impact artistic and literary creation while also examining the ways in which reproducibility impacts our practices and disciplines. Ce volume explore l'impact de la reproduction et de la reproductibilité sur la création artistique et littéraire, mais aussi l'impact de la reproductibilité sur nos pratiques et sur nos disciplines.
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The Redemption of Things
Collecting is usually understood as an activity that bestows
permanence, unity, and meaning on otherwise scattered and ephemeral
objects. In The Redemption of Things , Samuel Frederick
emphasizes that to collect things, however, always entails
displacing, immobilizing, and potentially disfiguring them, too. He
argues that the dispersal of objects, seemingly antithetical to the
collector's task, is essential to the logic of gathering and
preservation.
Through analyses of collecting as a dialectical process of
preservation and loss, The Redemption of Things
illustrates this paradox by focusing on objects that challenge
notions of collectability: ephemera, detritus, and trivialities
such as moss, junk, paper scraps, dust, scent, and the transitory
moment. In meticulous close readings of works by Gotthelf, Stifter,
Keller, Rilke, Glauser, and Frisch, and by examining an
experimental film by Oskar Fischinger, Frederick reveals how the
difficulties posed by these fleeting, fragile, and forsaken objects
help to reconceptualize collecting as a poetic activity that makes
the world of scattered things uniquely palpable and knowable.
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The influence of garden spatial configuration on tourist behavior: A systematic review based on Space Syntax
As composite spaces that integrate nature and culture, gardens are no longer regarded as merely static objects of visual appreciation in the context of urbanization, but have become essential venues for public cultural tourism and leisure. Consequently, the behavioral characteristics of tourists in gardens have attracted increasing academic attention. Space syntax, as a tool for analyzing the influence of spatial organization on human behavior, quantifies spatial configuration characteristics and can reveal how garden spatial configuration affects tourists’ movement paths and spatial preferences, thereby enabling a systematic examination of the impact of space syntax–based garden spatial configuration on tourist behavior. adheres to the Following by PRISMA 2020 guidelines, this study conducted a literature search for the period 2015−2015 in four databases, namely Web of Science, Scopus, JSTOR, and ScienceDirect Based on explicit inclusion and exclusion criteria, 16 high-quality empirical studies were ultimately selected. Results indicate that indicators such as integration, connectivity, and depth, demonstrate significant explanatory in predicting tourist path selection, stay locations, and spatial preferences. Furthermore, the influence of spatial structure on visitor behavior is not a singular direct effect. Visitor perceptions, particularly aesthetic preferences, cultural cognition, and sense of security, play a crucial mediating role between spatial structure and behavior. Based on these findings, this study proposes the “Structure–Perception–Behavior (SPB)’‘ framework. Its cross-scale methodological insights provide a theoretical foundation and practical pathway for subsequent landscape space optimization design and visitor behavior guidance.
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Optimizing dimensions in furniture design: A literature review
Wooden furniture design necessitates the integration of both technological requirements and aesthetic considerations. To guide designers in achieving this balance, this article explores how established design principles, such as proportions and preferred numerical sequences, can inform decision-making for both technological and aesthetic aspects. The goal is to demonstrate how these principles can be integrated with modern CAD tools. In reviewing the scientific literature, this study compiled and compared mathematical and non-mathematical models that support dimensional decision-making. These models included ancient canons (Egyptian, Greek, and Roman) alongside those of Leonardo da Vinci, Palladio, Dürer, Le Corbusier, Zeising, McCallum, and Brock. Additionally, the article examines numeral systems used in modern technology, such as Renard’s series and convenient numbers. It is proposed that designers should experiment with geometric design templates to achieve balanced proportions. All geometric design principles contribute to aesthetics, creativity and effectiveness in design. The literature identifies two groups of dimensional design templates: organic, inspired by the human body or the Fibonacci sequence, and inorganic, based on numerical order. It’s impossible to pinpoint a single “optimal algorithm” to support dimensional decisions in design. Specific geometric design principles serve as valuable tools, not the ultimate answer.
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Atlantic Aesthesis: Books and \Sensus Communis\ in the New World
In this history we find not just a \"middle ground\" (to draw on Richard White's valuable account of temporary shared sovereignty between European settler colonials and native peoples), but something more robust and sustaining-the aesthesis of survivance, and the generative and creative force of aesthesis in the shadow of imperial violence.2 In what follows, I explore instances of what I describe as \"aesthesis from below\" in the Americas-aesthesis grounded in the material and sensate conditions of living in shared terrain-rather than aesthetics from above, or the imposition of a set of tastes that colonize subjects by way of bodily sentience and norms of civility.3 More complexly, I mean to suggest that the aesthetic is never wholly distinct from aesthesis-from the process by which sensation becomes a site of shared meaning and, conversely, the process by which sensation shears away from the constraints of collective sense into materiality as well.
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