The Polyhedrists: Art And Geometry In Long Sixteenth Century Noam Andrews Mit Press Αγγλικά Βιβλία Arts General

A History Of The Relationship Between Art And Geometry In Early Modern Period Polyhedrists Noam Andrews Unfolds Europe Told Largely Through Collective Ground-Breaking Artisan-Artists (Among Them Luca Pacioli Albrecht Dürer Wenzel Jamnitzer Lorentz Stöer) By Detailed Analysis Rich Visual Panoply Their Work Featuring Paintings Prints Decorative Arts Cabinetry Lavishly Illustrated Treatises But This Is Also An Polyhedra Themselves Emblems Evolving Artistic Intelligence Which Include Varied Set Geometrical Figures—Both Platonic Or Regular Like Simple Tetrahedron Archimedean Irregular Complex Yet Beguiling Rhombicosidodecahedron Moreover Argues That Depictions Et Al Were Far More Than Mere Follies From Dawn Perspective At Odds With Contemporary View Renaissance Destined To Be Superseded Later Developments Higher Level Mathematics Fact Evolution Solids Into Innumerable “Irregular Bodies” Constituted Sustained Moment Formulation Mathematical Knowledge Its Engagement Materiality Intense Field Experimentation Would Birth New Language Abstraction Ignite Century Novel Form-Making Strategies Ultimately Paving Way For Topology Nineteenth Twentieth Centuries Even Prefiguring Recent Digital Turn Book Sense Not Just Applied Nor Particular Geometric Reading Some Celebrated Practitioners Manifesto Sorts Hitherto Unexplored Wilds Science Σελίδες: 208 Διαστάσεις: 15 2X15 2Cm