Iteration: Episodes in the Mediation of Art and Architecture
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Courtauld Institute of Art
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 56
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- B - Edited book
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10.4324/9780429402166
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- Routledge
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- 9781138392489
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- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Additional information
- This edited volume was written by an international team of contributors who answered a ‘call for papers’ from the editor, Robin Schuldenfrei. She convened the group for a two-day, double conference session, as part of the 42nd Association of Art Historians Annual Conference at the University of Edinburgh in 2016. To produce the book, two additional scholars, invited by Schuldenfrei, joined the original group, widening the volume’s chronological and theoretical scope.
The final volume, overseen and edited by Schuldenfrei, consists of nine chapters illustrated by ten color plates and 91 black and white illustrations. These offer a range of perspectives, looking broadly at meaning and insight offered by the iteration – for processes of design, for historical research, and for the reception of creative works. Schuldenfrei wrote the introductory essay for the volume, as well as authoring chapter 4, ‘Iteration of the Non-iterative: The Case of László Moholy-Nagy’s Photograms’.
The edited volume considers the ways in which multiple stages, phases, or periods in an artistic or design process have served to arrive at the final artifact, with a focus on the meaning and use of the iteration. To contextualize iteration within artistic and architectural production, this collection of essays presents a range of close studies in art, architectural and design history, using archival and historiographical research, media theory, photography, material studies, and critical theory. It examines objects as unique yet mutable works by examining their antecedents, successive exemplars, and their afterlives—and thus their role as organizers or repositories of meaning. Key elements are the roles of writing, the use of media, and relationships between object, image, and reproduction. This volume asks how a closer look at iteration reveals new perspectives into the production of objects and the production of thought alike.
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