The Future of Art in a Digital Age: From Hellenistic to Hebraic Consciousness

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Intellect, 2006 - 187 páginas

This work develops the thesis that the transition from pre-modernism to postmodernism in art of the digital age represents a paradigm shift from the Hellenistic to the Hebraic roots of Western culture.

Semiotic and morphological analysis of art and visual culture demonstrate the contemporary confluence between the deep structure of Hebraic consciousness and new directions in art that arise along the interface between scientific inquiry, digital technologies, and multicultural expressions.

Complementing these two analytic methodologies, alternative methodologies of kabbalah and halakhah provide postmodern methods for extending into digital age art forms. Exemplary artworks are described in the text and illustrated with photographs.

Sobre o autor (2006)

Mel Alexenberg was professor at Columbia University and universities in Israel, research fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for Advanced Visual Studies, head of the Art Department at Pratt Institute, and head of Emunah College School of the Arts in Jerusalem.

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