Valentino Catricalà (Author)
Carocci Editore
Physical Details: 128 pp.
Language: Italian
Gli artisti di inizio Novecento, molti dei quali afferenti alle avanguardie storiche, sono stati i primi a doversi confrontare con la nuova realtà industriale che, a partire dalla seconda metà dell’Ottocento, ha profondamente cambiato le società. Hanno cercato di abitare artisticamente quel nuovo mondo mettendo in primo piano il ruolo della macchina, delle nuove corporeità tecnologiche, dell’intelligenza non umana, della produzione di mondi virtuali. Inventando nuove macchine visive e instaurando nuove modalità operative tra artisti e ingegneri, le loro pratiche hanno messo in discussione le categorie classiche dell’arte contemporanea. Il volume rilegge l’arte di quel periodo da un punto di vista inedito, quello dei suoi rapporti con la tecnologia, e sottolinea come le sue tendenze abbiano anticipato molte pratiche e filosofie oggi imperanti. Dopo un’introduzione sull’arte ai tempi della rivoluzione industriale, vengono così analizzati il modo in cui il mondo industriale ne ha ribaltato le forme introducendovi dinamismo, velocità, frammentazione, complessità, e come gli artisti dell’epoca presero letteralmente d’assalto i media (cinema, fotografia, radio, grammofono) sperimentandoli direttamente o reinventandoli. Ciò porterà ad affrontare un tema mai trattato finora: quello di tutti quegli artisti che hanno inventato nuove macchine sonore e visive, nuovi dispositivi per una nuova arte nell’epoca della tecnologia. [Abstract translated by Google Translate: This is the abstract in English… The artists of the early twentieth century, many of whom belonged to the historical avant-garde, were the first to have to deal with the new industrial reality which, starting from the second half of the nineteenth century, profoundly changed societies. They tried to artistically inhabit that new world by foregrounding the role of the machine, of new technological corporeities, of non-human intelligence, of the production of virtual worlds. By inventing new visual machines and establishing new modes of operation among artists and engineers, their practices have questioned the classical categories of contemporary art. The volume rereads the art of that period from a new point of view, that of its relationships with technology, and underlines how its trends anticipated many practices and philosophies prevalent today. After an introduction on art at the time of the industrial revolution, the way in which the industrial world overturned its forms is analyzed by introducing dynamism, speed, fragmentation, complexity, and how the artists of the time literally stormed the media (cinema, photography, radio, gramophone) by experimenting with them directly or reinventing them. This will lead to addressing a topic never discussed before: that of all those artists who have invented new sound and visual machines, new devices for a new art in the age of technology.]
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