Imitation And Invention

Download Imitation And Invention full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Imitation And Invention ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

The Challenge of Emulation in Art and Architecture

Author : Professor David Mayernik
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1472407520
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (724 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Challenge of Emulation in Art and Architecture by : Professor David Mayernik

Download or read book The Challenge of Emulation in Art and Architecture written by Professor David Mayernik and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-12-28 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emulation is a challenging middle ground between imitation and invention. The idea of rivaling by means of imitation, as old as the Aenead and as modern as Michelangelo, fit neither the pessimistic deference of the neoclassicists nor the revolutionary spirit of the Romantics. Emulation thus disappeared along with the Renaissance humanist tradition, but it is slowly being recovered in the scholarship of Roman art. It remains to recover emulation for the Renaissance itself, and to revivify it for modern practice. Mayernik argues that it was the absence of a coherent understanding of emulation that fostered the fissuring of artistic production in the later eighteenth century into those devoted to copying the past and those interested in continual novelty, a situation solidified over the course of the nineteenth century and mostly taken for granted today. This book is a unique contribution to our understanding of the historical phenomenon of emulation, and perhaps more importantly a timely argument for its value to contemporary practice.

The Laws of Imitation - Scholar's Choice Edition

Author : Gabriel De Tarde
Publisher : Scholar's Choice
ISBN 13 : 9781294963554
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (635 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Laws of Imitation - Scholar's Choice Edition by : Gabriel De Tarde

Download or read book The Laws of Imitation - Scholar's Choice Edition written by Gabriel De Tarde and published by Scholar's Choice. This book was released on 2015-02-08 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Copycats

Author : Oded Shenkar
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
ISBN 13 : 1422126730
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (221 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Copycats by : Oded Shenkar

Download or read book Copycats written by Oded Shenkar and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In business, imitation gets a bad rap: some business leaders see imitators as 'me too' players forced to copy because they have nothing original to offer. In Copycats, Oded Shenkar challenges this viewpoint. He reveals how imitation - the exact or broad-brushed copying of an innovation - is as critical to prosperity as innovation, especially when the two are used together."--Inside jacket.

Mechanization in Industry

Author : Harry Jerome
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780415191098
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Mechanization in Industry by : Harry Jerome

Download or read book Mechanization in Industry written by Harry Jerome and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Origins, Imitation, Conventions

Author : James S. Ackerman
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262011860
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (118 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Origins, Imitation, Conventions by : James S. Ackerman

Download or read book Origins, Imitation, Conventions written by James S. Ackerman and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2002-03-29 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve studies by eminent art historian James S. Ackerman. This collection contains studies written by art historian James Ackerman over the past decade. Whereas Ackerman's earlier work assumed a development of the arts as they responded to social, economic, political, and cultural change, his recent work reflects the poststructural critique of the presumption of progress that characterized Renaissance and modernist history and criticism. In this book he explores the tension between the authority of the past—which may act not only as a restraint but as a challenge and stimulus—and the potentially liberating gift of invention. He examines the ways in which artists and writers on art have related to ancestors and to established modes of representation, as well as to contemporary experiences. The "origins" studied here include the earliest art history and criticism; the beginnings of architectural drawing in the Middle Ages and Renaissance; Leonardo Da Vinci's sketches for churches, the first in the Renaissance to propose supporting domes on sculpted walls and piers; and the first architectural photographs. "Imitation" refers to artistic achievements that in part depended on the imitation of forms established in practices outside the fine arts, such as ancient Roman rhetoric and print media. "Conventions," like language, facilitate communication between the artist and viewer, but are both more universal (understood across cultures) and more fixed (resisting variation that might diminish their clarity). The three categories are closely linked throughout the book, as most acts of representation partake to some degree of all three.

Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain

Author : George Edmund Street
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain by : George Edmund Street

Download or read book Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain written by George Edmund Street and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Imitation and Creativity in Japanese Arts

Author : Michael Lucken
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023154054X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Imitation and Creativity in Japanese Arts by : Michael Lucken

Download or read book Imitation and Creativity in Japanese Arts written by Michael Lucken and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea that Japanese art is produced through rote copy and imitation is an eighteenth-century colonial construct, with roots in Romantic ideals of originality. Offering a much-needed corrective to this critique, Michael Lucken demonstrates the distinct character of Japanese mimesis and its dynamic impact on global culture, showing through several twentieth-century masterpieces the generative and regenerative power of Japanese arts. Choosing a representative work from each of four modern genres—painting, film, photography, and animation—Lucken portrays the range of strategies that Japanese artists use to re-present contemporary influences. He examines Kishida Ryusei's portraits of Reiko (1914–1929), Kurosawa Akira's Ikiru (1952), Araki Nobuyoshi's photographic novel Sentimental Journey—Winter (1991), and Miyazaki Hayao's popular anime film Spirited Away (2001), revealing the sophisticated patterns of mimesis that are unique but not exclusive to modern Japanese art. In doing so, Lucken identifies the tensions that drive the Japanese imagination, which are much richer than a simple opposition between progress and tradition, and their reflection of human culture's universal encounter with change. This global perspective explains why, despite its non-Western origins, Japanese art has earned such a vast following.

The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson by : Ralph Waldo Emerson

Download or read book The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson written by Ralph Waldo Emerson and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Inventions of Reading

Author : Clayton Koelb
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 150174397X
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Inventions of Reading by : Clayton Koelb

Download or read book Inventions of Reading written by Clayton Koelb and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where do writers of fiction get their ideas? Clayton Koelb here takes issue with those who regard inspiration or imitation as primary forces influencing literary invention. He finds that another mechanism, which he calls "rhetorical construction," underlies much fiction and some nonfiction as well. Rhetorical construction, Koelb says, is a way of producing writing out of reading. The rhetorical writer begins by discovering an interpretive crux in a familiar text-a passage from the Bible, for example, or a commonplace expression—and then proceeds to imagine a fictional situation in which all the meanings of the passage, contradictory though they may seem, may be realized. According to Koelb, "inventions of reading" do not stop with the discovery of the eternal and inevitable deconstructibility of language; they somehow generate an urge to put language back together through the invention of a fictional world. Among the texts he discusses are writings by Boccaccio, Rabelais, Goethe, Schiller, Kleist, Hawthorne, Hans Christian Andersen Nietzsche, Kafka, Calvino, and Flannery O'Connor.

Towards a science of ideas: An inquiry into the emergence, evolution and expansion of ideas and their translation into action

Author : Guido Enthoven
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1648894666
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (488 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Towards a science of ideas: An inquiry into the emergence, evolution and expansion of ideas and their translation into action by : Guido Enthoven

Download or read book Towards a science of ideas: An inquiry into the emergence, evolution and expansion of ideas and their translation into action written by Guido Enthoven and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2022-08-02 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideas are the basic building blocks that construct the world we live in. Yet despite the abundance of literature on creativity and innovation, there has been little reflection on ideas as such, their nature and their working mechanisms. This book provides foundations for a reflection focused specifically on ideas - what they are, how they emerge, develop, interact, gain acceptance and become translated into actions. In doing so the book moves beyond the mainstream approaches, offering new, promising theoretical angles, presenting original findings and initiating a research agenda for a science of ideas. This book provides a fresh perspective on how to conceptualize and study ideas and their working mechanisms by treating ideas as the main object of the study and by bringing together a group of original thinkers, scholars, and philosophers to move beyond the mainstream academic discourse on creativity and innovation.

Architectural Type and Character

Author : Samir Younés
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0429013809
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (29 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Architectural Type and Character by : Samir Younés

Download or read book Architectural Type and Character written by Samir Younés and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architectural Type and Character provides an alternative perspective to the current role given to history in architecture, reunifying architectural history and architectural design to reform architectural discourse and practice. Historians provide important material for appreciating buildings and guiding those who produce them. In current histories, a building is the product of a time, its form follows its function, irresistible influences produce it, and style, preferably novel, is its most important attribute. This book argues for an alternative. Through a two-part structure, the book first develops the theoretical foundations for this alternative history of architecture. The second part then provides drawings and interpretations of over one hundred sites from different times and places. Architectural Type and Character: A Practical Guide to a History of Architecture is an excellent desk reference and studio guide for students and architectures alike to understand, analyze, and create buildings.

Elsie Clews Parsons

Author : Desley Deacon
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226139093
Total Pages : 539 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Elsie Clews Parsons by : Desley Deacon

Download or read book Elsie Clews Parsons written by Desley Deacon and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elsie Clews Parsons was a pioneering feminist, an eminent anthropologist, and an ardent social critic. In Elsie Clews Parsons, Desley Deacon reconstructs Parsons's efforts to overcome gender biases in both academia and society. "Wonderfully illuminating. . . . Parsons's work resonates strikingly to current trends in anthropology."—George W. Stocking, Jr., Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute "This is the biography of a woman so interesting and effective—a cross between Margaret Mead and Georgia O'Keeffe. . . . A nuanced portrait of this vivid woman."—Tanya Luhrmann, New York Times Book Review "A marvelous new book about the life of Elsie Clews Parsons. . . . It's as though she is sitting on the next rock, a contemporary struggling with the same issues that confront women today: how to combine work, love and child-rearing into one life."—Abigail Trafford, Washington Post "Parsons's splendid life and work continue to illuminate current puzzles about acculturation and diversity."—New Yorker

An archaeology of innovation

Author : Catherine J. Frieman
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526132672
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis An archaeology of innovation by : Catherine J. Frieman

Download or read book An archaeology of innovation written by Catherine J. Frieman and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An archaeology of innovation is the first monograph-length investigation of innovation and the innovation process from an archaeological perspective. It interrogates the idea of innovation that permeates our popular media and our political and scientific discourse, setting this against the long-term perspective that only archaeology can offer. Case studies span the entire breadth of human history, from our earliest hominin ancestors to the contemporary world. The book argues that the present narrow focus on pushing the adoption of technical innovations ignores the complex interplay of social, technological and environmental systems that underlies truly innovative societies; the inherent connections between new technologies, technologists and social structure that give them meaning and make them valuable; and the significance and value of conservative social practices that lead to the frequent rejection of innovations.

The Future of Invention

Author : John Muckelbauer
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791474204
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Future of Invention by : John Muckelbauer

Download or read book The Future of Invention written by John Muckelbauer and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2009-01-08 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the concept of rhetorical invention from an affirmative, nondialectical perspective.

Transcendental Resistance

Author : Johannes Voelz
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 158465936X
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (846 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Transcendental Resistance by : Johannes Voelz

Download or read book Transcendental Resistance written by Johannes Voelz and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2010 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely and engrossing critique of the New Americanists

Invention in Rhetoric and Composition

Author : Janice M. Lauer
Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781932559064
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (59 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Invention in Rhetoric and Composition by : Janice M. Lauer

Download or read book Invention in Rhetoric and Composition written by Janice M. Lauer and published by Parlor Press LLC. This book was released on 2004 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Invention in Rhetoric and Composition examines issues that have surrounded historical and contemporary theories and pedagogies of rhetorical invention, citing a wide array of positions on these issues in both primary rhetorical texts and secondary interpretations. It presents theoretical disagreements over the nature, purpose, and epistemology of invention and pedagogical debates over such issues as the relative importance of art, talent, imitation, and practice in teaching discourse. After a discussion of treatments of invention from the Sophists to the nineteenth century, Invention in Rhetoric and Composition introduces a range of early twentieth-century multidisciplinary theories and calls for invention's awakening in the field of English studies. It then showcases inventional theories and pedagogies that have emerged in the field of Rhetoric and Composition over the last four decades, including the ensuing research, critiques, and implementations of this inventional work. As a reference guide, the text offers a glossary of terms, an annotated bibliography of selected texts, and an extensive bibliography. Janice M. Lauer is Professor of English, Emerita at Purdue University, where she was the Reece McGee Distinguished Professor of English. In 1998, she received the College Composition and Communication Conference's Exemplar Award. Her publications include Four Worlds of Writing: Inquiry and Action in Context, Composition Research: Empirical Designs, and New Perspectives on Rhetorical Invention, as well as essays on rhetorical invention, disciplinarity, writing as inquiry, composition pedagogy, historical rhetoric, and empirical research.

Cycles of Invention and Discovery

Author : Venkatesh Narayanamurti
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674974158
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Cycles of Invention and Discovery by : Venkatesh Narayanamurti

Download or read book Cycles of Invention and Discovery written by Venkatesh Narayanamurti and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-24 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cycles of Invention and Discovery offers an in-depth look at the real-world practice of science and engineering. It shows how the standard categories of “basic” and “applied” have become a hindrance to the organization of the U.S. science and technology enterprise. Tracing the history of these problematic categories, Venkatesh Narayanamurti and Toluwalogo Odumosu document how historical views of policy makers and scientists have led to the construction of science as a pure ideal on the one hand and of engineering as a practical (and inherently less prestigious) activity on the other. Even today, this erroneous but still widespread distinction forces these two endeavors into separate silos, misdirects billions of dollars, and thwarts progress in science and engineering research. The authors contrast this outmoded perspective with the lived experiences of researchers at major research laboratories. Using such Nobel Prize–winning examples as magnetic resonance imaging, the transistor, and the laser, they explore the daily micro-practices of research, showing how distinctions between the search for knowledge and creative problem solving break down when one pays attention to the ways in which pathbreaking research actually happens. By studying key contemporary research institutions, the authors highlight the importance of integrated research practices, contrasting these with models of research in the classic but still-influential report Science the Endless Frontier. Narayanamurti and Odumosu’s new model of the research ecosystem underscores that discovery and invention are often two sides of the same coin that moves innovation forward.