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ISBN: 0226791599 Year: 1997 Publisher: Chicago, Ill. University of Chicago Press
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The age of information, media, and virtuality is transforming every aspect of human experience. Questions that have long haunted the philosophical imagination are becoming urgent practical concerns: Where does the natural end and the artificial begin? Is there a difference between the material and the immaterial? In his new work, Mark C. Taylor extends his ongoing investigation of postmodern worlds by critically examining a wide range of contemporary cultural practices. Nothing defines postmodernism so well as its refusal of depth, its emphasis on appearance and spectacle, its tendency to collapse a three-dimensional world in which image and reality are distinct into a two-dimensional world in which they merge. The postmodern world, Taylor argues, is a world of surfaces, and the postmodern condition is one of profound superficiality. For many cultural commentators, postmodernisms inescapable play of surfaces is cause for despair. Taylor, on the other hand, shows that the disappearance of depth in postmodern culture is actually a liberation repleat with creative possibilities. Taylor introduces readers to a popular culture in which detectives - the postmodern heroes of Paul Auster and Dennis Potter - lift surfaces only to find more surfaces, and in which fashion advertising plays transparency against hiding. Taylor looks at the contemporary preoccupation with body piercing and tattooing, and asks whether these practices actually reveal or conceal. Phrenology and skin diseases, the "religious" architecture of Las Vegas, the limitless spread of computer networks - all are brought within the scope of Taylor's brilliant analysis. Postmodernism, he shows, has given us a new sense of the superficial, one in which the issue is not the absence of meaning but its uncontrollable, ecstatic proliferation. Embodying the very tendencies it analyzes, Hiding is unique. Conceived and developed with well-known designers Michael Rock and Susan Sellars, this work transgresses the boundary that customarily separates graphic design from the story within a text. The product of nearly three decades of reflection and writing, Hiding opens a window on contemporary culture. To follow the remarkable course Taylor charts is to see both our present and past differently and to encounter a future as disorienting as it is alluring.
230*705 --- 230*705 Post-moderne theologie. Postmoderne theologie --- Post-moderne theologie. Postmoderne theologie --- Surfaces (Philosophy) --- Theology. --- Mark C. Taylor ; foreword by Jack Miles --- grafisch design --- postmodernisme --- piercing --- tatoeage --- Rock Michael --- Sellers Susan --- theologie --- religie --- lichamelijkheid --- frenologie --- mode --- Las Vegas --- Tschumi Bernard --- Sherman Cindy --- Venturi Robert --- computers --- nieuwe media --- netwerken --- 766.01 --- Surfaces (Philosophy). --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Sociology of culture --- Postmodernism --- Theology --- Christian theology --- Theology, Christian --- Christianity --- Religion --- Philosophy --- Post-modernism --- Postmodernism (Philosophy) --- Arts, Modern --- Avant-garde (Aesthetics) --- Modernism (Art) --- Philosophy, Modern --- Post-postmodernism --- Postmodernism. --- 130.2 --- 7.01 --- architectuur --- cultuurfilosofie --- dermatologie --- filosofie --- grafische vormgeving --- huid --- reclamevormgeving
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ISBN: 9781568987729 Year: 2009 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Princeton Architectural Press
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Graphic Design Theory presents groundbreaking, primary texts from the most important historical and contemporary designthinkers. From Aleksandr Rodchenko's "Who We Are: Manifesto of the Constructivist Group" to Kenya Hara's "Computer Technology and Design," this essential volume provides the necessary foundation for contemporary critical vocabulary and thought.Graphic Design Theory is organized in three sections: "Creating the Field" traces the evolution of graphic design over the course of the early 1900s, including influential avant-garde ideas of futurism, constructivism, and the Bauhaus; "Building on Success" covers the mid- to late twentieth century and considers the International Style, modernism, and postmodernism; and "Mapping the Future" opens at the end of the last century and includes current discussions on legibility, social responsibility, and new media. Striking color images illustrate each of the movements discussed and demonstrate the ongoing relationship between theory and practice. A brief commentary prefaces each text, providing a cultural and historical framework through which the work can be evaluated. Authors include such influential designers as Herbert Bayer, Lszl Moholy-Nagy, Karl Gerstner, Katherine McCoy, Michael Rock, Lev Manovich, Ellen Lupton, and Lorraine Wild. Additional features include a timeline, glossary, and bibliography for further reading. A must-have survey for graduate and undergraduate courses in design history, theory, and contemporary issues, Graphic Design Theory invites designers and interested readers of all levels to plunge into the world of design discourse.
Graphic arts. --- Commercial art. --- designtheorie --- Bayer Herbert --- Gerstner Karl --- Hara Kenya --- Helfand Jessica --- Heller Steven --- Lasn Kalle --- Lissitzky El --- Lupton Ellen --- Lupton Julia --- McCoy Katherine --- Frej David --- Manovich Lev --- Marinetti Filippo Tommaso --- Moholy-Nagy Laszlo --- Müller-Brockmann Josef --- Rand Paul --- Rock Michael --- Rodchenko Aleksander --- Stepanova Varvara --- Gan Aleksei --- Scher Paula --- Siegel Dmitri --- Tschichold Jan --- van Toorn Jan --- Venturi Robert --- Scott Brown Denise --- Izenour Steven --- Warde Beatrice --- Weingart Wolfgang --- Wild Lorraine --- futurisme --- constructivisme --- typografie --- Bauhaus --- modernisme --- postmodernisme --- 766.01 --- #SBIB:309H240 --- 750.2 --- ontwerpmethodiek --- Andere media (theater, plastische kunsten, strips, affiches, speelautomaten...) --- grafische vormgeving, tijdschriften en seriewerken - verzamelde opstellen --- grafische vormgeving --- Graphic arts --- graphic design --- grafisch ontwerp --- Commercial art --- Grafische vormgeving ; theorie ; ontwerpen --- Grafische vormgevers ; 20ste en 21ste eeuw --- Art, Graphic --- Arts, Graphic --- Graphic design (Graphic arts) --- Graphics --- Art --- Visual communication --- Advertising, Art in --- Advertising, Pictorial --- Advertising art --- Art, Commercial --- Art in advertising --- Commercial design --- Advertising --- Art and industry --- Posters --- Motion picture billboards --- Gebruiksgrafiek ; theorie, filosofie, esthetica
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