Drawing Analogies
Subtitle: Diagrams in Art, Theory and Practice
By: David Burrows, John Cussans, Dean Kenning and Mary Yacoob
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Drawing In
Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Published: 2025
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781350334762; 9781350334731; 9781350334748; 9781350334755; 9781350334779
Subjects: Analogy; Charts, diagrams; Design; Philosophy; Drawing & drawings; History of art / art & design styles
Description: By exploring diagrams, diagramming and the diagrammatic across a range of disciplines and arts-led practices, this open access book addresses the gap between diagrams as a widely valued mode of visual representation and their under-examined status within arts and art education    Informed by Charles Sanders Peirce's understanding of a diagram as an analogy of relations, Drawing Analogies draws on its authors' creative use of diagrams as artists, educators and arts researchers, and on fields of inquiry that bring the arts into alignment with other disciplines - most notably anthropology, critical theory, pedagogy, philosophy, psychology, semiotics and the physical and life sciences. This range of disciplines is evident in the artists and writers discussed, such as Gregory Bateson, Black Quantum Futurism, Salvador Dali, Phillipe Descola, Aristotle, Hilma af Klint, Rosalind E. Krauss, Yayoi Kusama, Louis Hjelmslev, Susanne Leeb, Jacques Lacan, Pauline Oliveros, and George Widener.    While the authors approach diagramming as both a technical and poetic activity, their emphasis is on creative, embodied and exploratory modes of diagramming practices, which are capable of engendering new forms, thoughts and experiences. By taking an artistic approach to diagrams and diagramming, by incorporating diagramming as a method of enquiry within chapters, and by exploring their interdisciplinary and multi-perspectival potentials, Drawing Analogies proposes giving new life to the art of diagramming and widening the arena of artistic practice and creative research.    The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by University College London.
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Table of contents: title: List of Figures  Introduction  Part 1: Ontologies and Epistemes 1. Invisible Machines: Psychoanalytic Imaginaries and Paranoid Critical Theory 2. The Diagrammatic Works of Hilma af Klint 3. Cosmo-Diagrams: Beyond the Bubble 4. Deleuze's Living Diagram Pt. 1: From Structural to Intensive Relations (The Biological Idea)  Part 2: Diagrams in Use 5. Deleuze's Living Diagram Pt. 2: From Structural to Nervous Analogy (Francis Bacon) 6. Intersections Between Art, Diagrams, Time and Technology 7. This is Not a Diagram: Applying General Semantics to Contemporary Arts Pedagogy 8. Auraltechnics: Towards Audio Diagrams  Conclusion  Bibliography Index: Names Index: Concepts