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Matthew Biro 出版社: Univ Of Minnesota Press 副标题: Visions of the New Human in Weimar Berlin 出版年: 2009-6-12 页数: 400 定价: USD 29.50 装帧: Paperback ISBN: 9780816636204
<DIV><DIV>In an era when technology, biology, and culture are becoming ever more closely connected, The Dada Cyborg explains how the cyborg as we know it today actually developed between 1918 and 1933 when German artists gave visual form to their utopian hopes and fantasies in a fearful response to World War I.
In what could be termed a prehistory of the posthuman, Matthew ...
<DIV><DIV>In an era when technology, biology, and culture are becoming ever more closely connected, The Dada Cyborg explains how the cyborg as we know it today actually developed between 1918 and 1933 when German artists gave visual form to their utopian hopes and fantasies in a fearful response to World War I.
In what could be termed a prehistory of the posthuman, Matthew Biro shows the ways in which new forms of human existence were imagined in Germany between the two world wars through depictions of cyborgs. Examining the work of Hannah Höch, Raoul Hausmann, George Grosz, John Heartfield, Otto Dix, and Rudolf Schlichter, he reveals an innovative interpretation of the cyborg as a representative of hybrid identity, as well as a locus of new modes of awareness created by the impact of technology on human perception. Tracing the prevalence of cyborgs in German avant-garde art, Biro demonstrates how vision, hearing, touch, and embodiment were beginning to be reconceived during the Weimar Republic.
Biro’s unique and interdisciplinary analysis offers a substantially new account of the Berlin Dada movement, one that integrates the group’s poetic, theoretical, and performative practices with its famous visual strategies of photomontage, assemblage, and mixed-media painting to reveal radical images of a “new human.”</DIV>
in part the sign of a fearful response to the destruction of war...the cyborg was paradoxically also a creature on which many Weimar artists and other cultural producers could project their utopian hopes and fantasies. (查看原文)
Nobert Wiener-- cybernetics, defined as the study of feedback, communication, and control in human beings, machines, and other organised systems.
Wiener, cybernetics was bringing about a second industrial revolution through automation, one that held both enormous potential and terrifying danger...reduce the human labour force to the condition of slavery...technological development also possessed a semi-autonomous power and logic of its own-- one that exceeded the abilities of human beings (查看原文)
By bringing to light a visual history leading to such contemporary concepts as the “divided subject” “hybrid identity,” shows how radical artists grappled with the powerful forces of total war， the bu...By bringing to light a visual history leading to such contemporary concepts as the “divided subject” “hybrid identity,” shows how radical artists grappled with the powerful forces of total war， the burgeoning mass media，new forms of social and political organization，and how they imagined ways in which human beings could bestreconstruct themselves.(展开)
By bringing to light a visual history leading to such contemporary concepts as the “divided subject” “hybrid identity,” shows how radical artists grappled with the powerful forces of total war， the bu...By bringing to light a visual history leading to such contemporary concepts as the “divided subject” “hybrid identity,” shows how radical artists grappled with the powerful forces of total war， the burgeoning mass media，new forms of social and political organization，and how they imagined ways in which human beings could bestreconstruct themselves.(展开)
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Berlin Dada and Photomontage as a Political Tool
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By bringing to light a visual history leading to such contemporary concepts as the “divided subject” “hybrid identity,” shows how radical artists grappled with the powerful forces of total war， the bu... By bringing to light a visual history leading to such contemporary concepts as the “divided subject” “hybrid identity,” shows how radical artists grappled with the powerful forces of total war， the burgeoning mass media，new forms of social and political organization，and how they imagined ways in which human beings could bestreconstruct themselves. (展开)
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By bringing to light a visual history leading to such contemporary concepts as the “divided subject” “hybrid identity,” shows how radical artists grappled with the powerful forces of total war， the bu... By bringing to light a visual history leading to such contemporary concepts as the “divided subject” “hybrid identity,” shows how radical artists grappled with the powerful forces of total war， the burgeoning mass media，new forms of social and political organization，and how they imagined ways in which human beings could bestreconstruct themselves. (展开)
0 有用 無患子 2013-02-23 14:30:15
Berlin Dada and Photomontage as a Political Tool