Title: On the animation of the inorganic : art, architecture, and the extension of life /
Authors: Papapetros, Spyros.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Nature (Aesthetics); Animation (Cinematography); Art Philosophy
Contents: Animation victims: an abridged history of animated response -- Animated history -- The movement of accessories -- Fabric extensions and textual supplements from modern and antique fragments -- The movement of snakes -- Pneumatic impulses and bygone appendages from Philo to Warburg -- The afterlife of crystals -- Art historical biology and the animation of the inorganic -- Inorganic culture -- Nudes in the forest -- Models, sciences, and legends in a landscape by Léger -- Malicious houses -- Animism and animosity in German architecture and film from Mies to Murnau -- Daphne's legacy -- Architecture, psychoanalysis, and petrification.