Surface and apparition : The immateriality of modern surface

Author

Additional Author(s)

• Halliwell, Lesley

Publisher

London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020

Language

English

ISBN

9781350130470

Series

Subject(s)

• AESTHETICS
• TEXTURE (ART)

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Abstract

Surface is one of the most intensely debated topics in recent arts, humanities and social science scholarship. The changing technologies which manufacture the actual and virtual surfaces of today are radically altering our perception of thresholds and borders. In contrast to the responses to preceding industrial revolutions, contemporary concerns with surface seem preoccupied with its function of mediation or passage, rather than with that of separation or boundary. In Surface and Apparition, each chapter explores a different meaning and function of the material and immaterial qualities of 'surface'.

Case studies include various surfaces from computer screens, 'artisanal' engines and glass architecture to gauzy veils, the planetary surface of supply chain capitalism and spatial embodiment in street markets. International scholars of design, architecture, film, media, fine art, fashion, textiles, silversmithing, woodworking and archival practices account for how the material and the immaterial draw attention to each other in both their everyday and artistic practice. Each chapter addresses particular systems (from the human body to manually operated tools and machines); materials (for instance cloth, wood and light); modes of attention, movement and engagement. 'Surface' therefore functions in this book as a multidisciplinary method for attending to critical issues concerning human creative and technological endeavours.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (xviii, 220 p.)

Dimension

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Other Desc.

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Summary / Review / Table of Content

Folds of fashion : unravelled and the planetary surface / (Jussi Parikka) --
Surface-making in nuclear decommissioning : a narrative of sludge, plutonium and their whereabouts / (Petra Tjitske Kalshoven) --
Surface eruption : machine creativity and emotive data objects / (Barbara Rauch) --
The depth of surface / (Lesley Halliwell) --
Where surface meets depth : virtuality in textile and material design / (Elaine Igoe) --
Growing surface between textiles and electrochemistry / (Joanne Horton) --
David Pye's Fluting Engine / (Benedict Carpenter van Barthold) --
Journal (2016-2018) : conversations on looms, cloth and weaving / (Max Mosscrop and Benedict Carpenter van Barthold) --
On drawing : transmission from the lifeworld to paper at Namdaemun Market, Seoul / (Ray Lucas) --
Archive surface / (Jane Birkin) --
Experience, poverty, transparency : the modern surface of interwar glass / (Freyja Hartzell) --
On genealogy of translucent screen and rehabilitation of ephemeral : post-cinema, installation, performance / (Oksana Chefranova).

Exemplar(s)

#	Accession No.	Call Number	Location	Status
1.	01007/21	620.44 Sur	Online !	Available