"Curious machines" reproducing sculpture via machine and its modus of display in the nineteenth century
The relationship between the human body, sculpture, and machine is demonstrated by mechanical or artistic works performing at the intersection of aesthetics and scientific practice. Considering the mutual interaction of body and technology, the idea of delegating image production completely to machi...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | The sculptural in the (post-)digital age / Mara-Johanna Kölmel, Ursula Ströbele (eds.) |
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| Sprache: | eng |
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2023
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | The relationship between the human body, sculpture, and machine is demonstrated by mechanical or artistic works performing at the intersection of aesthetics and scientific practice. Considering the mutual interaction of body and technology, the idea of delegating image production completely to machines can be traced to two main developments: the creation of drawing machines for multiplying portraits, like the physiog-notrace, and to the conception of machines for reproducing sculpture, both of which were invented in the late eighteenth and the early nineteenth century. Thus, relevant to the development of modern exhibition culture, this paper takes up modern technologies for reproduction in the arts with a focus on practices in the field of sculpture: since 1800, industrial exhibitions, museum collections or public demonstrations of humanlike machines that replicate sculptures stand for a specific display aesthetic as well as the notion of the magical or even curios as a topic. Ultimately, machines and their active role in the reproduction process of artworks will be contextualized via Gilbert Simondon (1958) and will position the machine and the object as active agents in the entangled fields of art, science, and technology. |
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| Beschreibung: | Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 978-3-11-077505-1 |