The Material Imagination

The Material Imagination
Author: Dr Matthew Mindrup
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2015-01-30
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1472424581

In recent years architectural discourse has witnessed a renewed interest in materiality under the guise of such familiar tropes as 'material honesty,' 'form finding,' or 'digital materiality.' As an alternative to a formal approach in architectural design, this book challenges readers to rethink the reverie of materials in architecture through an examination of historical precedent, architectural practice, literary sources, philosophical analyses and everyday experience. Focusing on matter as the premise of an architect’s imagination, each chapter identifies and graphically illustrates how material imagination defines the conceptual premises for making architecture.

Beckett, Modernism and the Material Imagination

Beckett, Modernism and the Material Imagination
Author: Steven Connor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2014-06-30
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1107059224

This is a collection of authoritative essays on Samuel Beckett's writing from a pre-eminent scholar of twentieth-century literature and culture.

Material Imagination in Architecture

Material Imagination in Architecture
Author: David Dernie
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2016-07-07
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1317450027

Material Imagination in Architecture draws on history and the visual arts, and contemporary architecture to explore this popular theme in architectural practice and education. In the context of a discipline increasingly driven by digital production, this text explores architecture and making and the diverse influences on the material reality of architectural form: it argues that the crafts, fabrication and assemblage of its making remain vital elements of contemporary architectural language. This broad-ranging text bridges the gap between a technical or otherwise fragmentary knowledge of materials of the specialist, and the tacit or instinctive understanding of materials that the artist, sculptor or architect may have. It identifies key material themes pertinent to contemporary architectural debate and develops a discourse about future practice that is framed by environmental imperatives and grounded in a historical understanding of the meaning and use of materials. Material iconology in architecture is a well-established tradition and this book draws on that background to investigate the possibilities, and limits, of using materials in contemporary design to communicate the themes and contexts of an architectural project, a material’s relationship to context, and to the history of practices that belong to the traditions of making buildings. Each theme is explored in case studies from twelve countries around the world, including the UK, USA, Spain, Italy, Germany, Australia and China.

Beckett, Modernism and the Material Imagination

Beckett, Modernism and the Material Imagination
Author: Steven Connor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2014-06-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1139993119

Steven Connor, one of the most influential critics of twentieth-century literature and culture, has spent much of his career writing and thinking about Samuel Beckett. This book presents Connor's finest published work on Beckett alongside fresh essays that explore how Beckett has shaped major themes in modernism and twentieth-century literature. Through discussions of sport, nausea, slowness, flies, the radio switch, religion and academic life, Connor shows how Beckett's writing is characteristic of a distinctively mundane or worldly modernism, arguing that it is well-attuned to our current concern with the stressed relations between the human and natural worlds. Through Connor's analysis, Beckett's prose, poetry and dramatic works animate a modernism profoundly concerned with life, worldly existence and the idea of the world as such. Lucid, provocative, wide-ranging, and richly informed by critical and cultural theory, this book is required reading for anyone teaching or studying Beckett, modernism and twentieth-century literary studies.

Water and Dreams

Water and Dreams
Author: Gaston Bachelard
Publisher: Dallas Institute Publications
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999
Genre: Imagination
ISBN: 9780911005257

Objects and Imagination

Objects and Imagination
Author: Øivind Fuglerud
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2015-02-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1782385673

Despite the wide interest in material culture, art, and aesthetics, few studies have considered them in light of the importance of the social imagination - the complex ways in which we conceptualize our social surroundings. This collection engages the “material turn” in the arts, humanities, and social sciences through a range of original contributions on creativity in diverse global and contemporary social settings. The authors engage with everyday objects, art, rituals, and ethnographic exhibitions to analyze the relationship between material culture and the social imagination. What results is a better understanding of how the material embodies and influences our idea of the social world.

Material Imagination

Material Imagination
Author: Natalie Adamson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2017-07-24
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1119328578

Material Imagination examines the interrelated concepts of matter, materialism, and materiality in postwar European art, from 1946-1972. Provides a unique perspective on European art by prioritizing material dimensions over concept or context, while also paying attention to theoretical and historical concerns Explores artists’ methods and materials in order to better understand the social and cultural environments in which their works of art were made Demonstrates how materials can be harnessed to affect the critical interpretation of artwork Brings together exceptional illustrations and new research in eight essays by art historians and scholars

Imagination and Art: Explorations in Contemporary Theory

Imagination and Art: Explorations in Contemporary Theory
Author: Keith Moser
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 810
Release: 2020-07-27
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9004436359

This transdisciplinary project represents the most comprehensive study of imagination to date. The eclectic group of international scholars who comprise Imagination and Art propose bold and innovative theoretical frameworks for (re-) conceptualizing imagination in all of its divergent forms.

The Method of Imagination

The Method of Imagination
Author: Sheldon Brown
Publisher: IAP
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2018-12-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1641134739

Though many psychological theories refer to imagination as a relevant phenomena, we still lack knowledge about imaginative processes. The book “The Method of Imagination” is aimed at expanding the knowledge about imaginative processes as higher mental function, by starting from the empirical and phenomenological studies. The volume is an innovative multidisciplinary exploration in the study of imaginative processes as complex phenomena. It covers a wide range of fields, from psychology to sociology, from art and design to marketing and education. The book gathers young and experienced scholars from 6 different countries worldwide, providing a fresh look into the theoretical, methodological and applicative aspects of imagination studies. The audience for this book includes scholars and students in social and human sciences interested in the study and the use of imaginative processes. The volume can be also used as textbook/integrative reading in undergrad and master courses.