Variantology 4 On Deep Time Relations of Arts, Sciences and Technologies in the Arabic-Islamic World and Beyond |
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Editor:
| Furlus, Eckhard Zielinski, Siegfried |
Text by:
| Furlus, Eckhard Zielinski, Siegfried Alertz, Ulrich Belting, Hans Borrelli, Arianna Bruckstein Çoruh, Almut Sh. Flusser, Vilém Batsry, Irit Guardans, Ramon Haase, Claus-Peter Latell, Franziska Link, David Marks, Laura Moore, Anthony Raina, Dhruv Rohrhuber, Julian |
Artist:
| Quay, The Brothers |
ISBN: | 978-3-86560-732-4 |
Publication Date: | Mar 2011 |
Publisher: | Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $75.00 |
Book Description:
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Variantology 4revisits the early western encounter with the technological marvels of early Arabic culture. It presents scholarship on a range of subjects relating to the overlap between the arts and the sciences, from musical automata to theories of music and dance. Along the way, an impressive roster of historians of the arts and the sciences transport us to such phenomena as the ninth-century House of Wisdom in Baghdad, where programmed music automata were conceived and built;...
More Description Variantology 4revisits the early western encounter with the technological marvels of early Arabic culture. It presents scholarship on a range of subjects relating to the overlap between the arts and the sciences, from musical automata to theories of music and dance. Along the way, an impressive roster of historians of the arts and the sciences transport us to such phenomena as the ninth-century House of Wisdom in Baghdad, where programmed music automata were conceived and built; to a darkened chamber in Cairo, where in the early eleventh century the laws of seeing and visual perception were rewritten; to the Al-Jazira region between the two rivers Euphrates and Tigris, where in the eleventh and twelfth centuries automaton theaters were devised in fascinating intricacy. Andalusia, India, Iran, Istanbul, Syria and the Three Moons monastic school in Beirut provide further stops on an expedition that celebrates technological marvels and wonders and the pivotal role of Arabic-Islamic culture in the prehistory of the arts and media.