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Rycroft, Simon (2012) Art and micro-cosmos: kinetic art and mid-20th century cosmology. Cultural Geographies, 19 (4). pp. 447-467. ISSN 1474-4740
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Abstract
Recent work by cultural geographers on visual art has emphasized performative and participatory aspects focusing upon the embodied and multi-sensory experience of encountering and being part of a work of art. Research on non-figurative art has much to offer in elucidating the relationships and distinctions between representation, non-representation and abstraction. Non figurative artists were representing or enacting a new kind of materiality, one that was putative, in process and ever changing. That materiality was based upon the adoption of a mid-20th-century cosmology and inspired by recent advances in the understanding of matter and the universe. Kinetic art, which is characterized by a set of abstract aesthetics that represent or reproduce real or illusory movement, was, especially in the post-war period, inspired by this new cosmology. Mid-century kinetic artists created non-figurative abstract models of the latest understandings to bring their associated energies, forces and motions to the senses of the viewer-participant. The models that kinetic artists produced in a variety of media were designed to be experienced in an embodied manner rather than simply viewed. These and other models of a mid-century cosmology signify a period in which the practices of representation were shifting significantly and consequently demand our attention.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Online First Article |
| Schools and Departments: | School of Global Studies > Geography |
| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > G Geography (General) > G0001 Geography (General) |
| Depositing User: | Simon Rycroft |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Nov 2012 14:56 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Apr 2013 14:26 |
| URI: | http://srodev.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/41819 |
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