Maciunas' Learning Machines
From Art History to a Chronology of Fluxus
2nd Edition
Published on 20. May 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
216 pages
978-3-7091-0479-8 (ISBN)
Description
The art of cross-linked thinking consists in facilitating dealing with complexity and admitting new insights. This approach, prevailing in all realms of knowledge, determines also the artistic praxis of Fluxus initiator George Maciunas. This book shows some hundred diagrams and maps related to history from antiquity to postmodernism; they serve to visualize artistic, political, and economic correlations. If it were up to Maciunas, there wouldn't be any real concept of the past without percepts. With his maps, diagrams, and tables, a big part of which is published for the first time, he tries to draw a picture of history in a different way. The result seems fascinating both on a scientific and artistic level. It opens insights into eye-opening correlations between dates and facts as well as makes appear completely novel forms of knowledge transfer.
More details
Edition
2., nd revised and enlarged edition 2011
Language
English
Place of publication
Vienna
Austria
Target group
College/higher education
Professional/practitioner
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
224
224 s/w Abbildungen
Two posters
ISBN-13
978-3-7091-0479-8 (9783709104798)
Schweitzer Classification
Person
Astrit Schmidt-Burkhardt is a historian of images. Since 2003 she is a lecturer of the history of art since the Enlightenment at Free University Berlin. She studies and publishes on the diagrammatics, the eye, the pseudonym, and the avant-garde. Recent publication: Stammbäume der Kunst: Zur Genealogie der Avantgarde, Berlin, 2005.
Content
Foreword by Jon Hendricks. - Preface. - Learning in the Age of Enlightenment: The Chronographic Chart. Visual Enlightenment. Cinematographic Vision Machine. - Atlas of Russian History: Evolution of the Russian State. Mapping History. History Mapping. From Space-Time Atlas to Time-Space Chart. - History Charts: History as Chronology. Making Capitalism History. Focus on Russia Cyclical Time Mapping Art History - Fluxus Charts: Premiere at the Kleines Sommerfest. Festum Fluxorum. Fluxus Goes East. Finite Invention. Historical Development of Fluxus. Expanded Arts Diagram. Who Is Fluxus? The Big Chart. Genealogy of Fluxus. The Tree of Cage. Historical Design and Dependence. Fluxus Chronology. - Learning Machines: Mapping Knowledge. Net-Works. Vision of Networking. The Eternal Classifier. Plain Narratives, Significant Narratives. Richard Kostelanetz, a Pioneer of Diagrammatics. Small-scale Model. - Plates. - Notes. - Index