Enfoldment and infinity : an Islamic genealogy of new media art / Laura U. Marks.
"In both classical Islamic art and contemporary new media art, one point can unfold to reveal an entire universe. A fourteenth-century dome decorated with geometric complexity and a new media work that shapes a dome from programmed beams of light: both can inspire feelings of immersion and tran...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
MIT Press,
[2010]
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| Series: | Leonardo (Series) (Cambridge, Mass.)
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| Summary: | "In both classical Islamic art and contemporary new media art, one point can unfold to reveal an entire universe. A fourteenth-century dome decorated with geometric complexity and a new media work that shapes a dome from programmed beams of light: both can inspire feelings of immersion and transcendence. In Enfoldment and Infinity, Laura Marks traces the strong similarities, visual and philosophical, between these two kinds of art. Her argument is more than metaphorical; she shows that the “Islamic” quality of modern and new media art is a latent, deeply enfolded, historical inheritance from Islamic art and thought."--Publisher's website. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 395 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), plates, photographs ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0262014211 9780262014212 |