Overview
- Presents comprehensive work on this matter
- Contains perspicuous organization in the form of a glossary
- Includes a reasoned bibliography
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Morphogenesis (LECTMORPH)
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The ever-increasing importance of the image as a polysemic form has made the two concepts absolutely transitive, so to speak. This is concomitant with the emergence of a culture that revolves around the image, attracting the verbal logos into its orbit. Incidentally, even the hermeneutic relationship between past and present relies more and more on the image, causing deep changes incultural environments. Form and image are not just bridging concepts, as in the field of ancient morphology, but real transitive concepts that define the state of a culture. From the Internet to smartphones, television, advertising, etc., we are witnessing – as Horst Bredekamp observes – an immense mass of images that fill our time and affect the most diverse areas of our culture.
The ancient connection between science and art recalled by Goethe emerges with unusual evidence thanks to intersecting patterns and expressive forms that are sometimes shared by different forms of knowledge. Creating a glossary and a culture of these intersections is the task of morphology, which thus enters into the boundaries between aesthetics, art, design, advertising, and sciences (from mathematics to computer science, to physics, and to biology), in order to provide the founding elements of a grammar and a syntax of the image. The latter, in its formal quality, bothexpressive and symbolic, is a fundamental element in the unification of the various kinds of knowledge, which in turn come to be configured, in this regard, also as styles of vision.
The glossary is subdivided into contiguous sections, within a complex framework of cross-references. In addition to the two curators, the book features the collaboration of a team of scholars from the individual disciplines appearing in the glossary.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Glossary of Morphology
Editors: Federico Vercellone, Salvatore Tedesco
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Morphogenesis
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51324-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-51323-8Published: 02 December 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-51326-9Published: 03 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-51324-5Published: 01 December 2020
Series ISSN: 2195-1934
Series E-ISSN: 2195-1942
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 540
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Phenomenology, Morphology, Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics, Aesthetics