{"product_id":"reconciling-art-and-technology-subrata-dasgupta-9781032673394","title":"Reconciling Art and Technology: A Shared Cognitive History","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book examines two venerable cultures, art and technology, and uses the young \"interdiscipline\" of cognitive history combined with case studies of both ancient and modern artifacts to explore, and unveil, some of the bridges by which this reconciliation of two seemingly distant and oppositional cultures can be effected.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArt and technology are commonly regarded as oppositional. While both are concerned with made things - artifacts - and both have their origins in pre-literate antiquity, the primary purposes they are intended for are quite distinct: the artifacts of technology serve \u003ci\u003eutilitarian \u003c\/i\u003epurposes while those of art serve \u003ci\u003eaffective \u003c\/i\u003eneeds. This opposition between art and technology, notably argued by such scholars as Lewis Mumford and George Kubler is challenged in this book. For, when we consider art and technology as \u003ci\u003ecreative phenomena\u003c\/i\u003e, then many significant, interesting, and often subtle \u003ci\u003ecommonalities \u003c\/i\u003eemerge whereby a \u003ci\u003ereconciliation \u003c\/i\u003e- a unity - of these two great cultures seems possible. This book utilizes case studies of both ancient and modern artifacts - ranging from the \u003ci\u003eNataraja \u003c\/i\u003esculpture of ancient India, a great astronomical clock of ancient China, and Japanese Samurai swordmaking, through Gothic cathedrals and Renaissance paintings of Europe to English Elizabethan machinery to the French Impressionists to modernist concrete structures and paintings in both East and West.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book will be of interest to students and professional scholars interested in the histories of art and technology, cultural history, and creativity studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Subrata Dasgupta\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1032673397\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781032673394\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/27\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 262\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.84lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.57d","brand":"Subrata Dasgupta","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48175776039167,"sku":"9781032673394","price":56.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_97514a58-eddd-48b4-a1cf-d6582437692e.jpg?v=1771335831","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/reconciling-art-and-technology-subrata-dasgupta-9781032673394","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}