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When artists, scientists, and designers unite they create new ways of thinking and alternative paths to problem solving.

The first book to trace the story of British organic modernism, this ground-breaking open access study tells the story of a collective culture of artists, scientists, and designers in 20th century united by a holistic understanding of the organic world and devoted to collaboration, cooperation, and cross-pollination of the arts and biological sciences.

Tracing how artists, scientists, and designers cooperated in various capacities from the Great Depression to postwar cybernetics, this book follows the evolution of philosophical organicism from the British Bauhaus, modern architecture, and surrealism; through to post-war socialism, the welfare state, epigenetics, biology-based art exhibitions; robotic art and design, cybernetics and ecology in art. Reacting against blunt reductionism, organic modernists implemented organicist and emergentist ph

Organic Modernism

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    A Hardback by Dr. Charissa N. Terranova

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      Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 1/28/2024 12:11:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781350227538, 978-1350227538
      ISBN10: 1350227536
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      When artists, scientists, and designers unite they create new ways of thinking and alternative paths to problem solving.

      The first book to trace the story of British organic modernism, this ground-breaking open access study tells the story of a collective culture of artists, scientists, and designers in 20th century united by a holistic understanding of the organic world and devoted to collaboration, cooperation, and cross-pollination of the arts and biological sciences.

      Tracing how artists, scientists, and designers cooperated in various capacities from the Great Depression to postwar cybernetics, this book follows the evolution of philosophical organicism from the British Bauhaus, modern architecture, and surrealism; through to post-war socialism, the welfare state, epigenetics, biology-based art exhibitions; robotic art and design, cybernetics and ecology in art. Reacting against blunt reductionism, organic modernists implemented organicist and emergentist ph

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