Name: Organic Modernism. From the British Bauhaus to Cybernetics
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Author: Dr. Charissa N. Terranova
ISBN: 9781350227576

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Organic Modernism. From the British Bauhaus to Cybernetics

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Author

Dr. Charissa N. Terranova

Collection

Biotechne: Interthinking Art, Science and Design

Year

2026

Pages

304

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

23.40 x 15.60 cm

ISBN13

9781350227576

Organic Modernism. From the British Bauhaus to Cybernetics

Dr. Charissa N. Terranova (Author) · Bloomsbury Visual Arts · Paperback

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Synopsis "Organic Modernism. From the British Bauhaus to Cybernetics"

When artists, scientists, and designers unite they create new ways of thinking and alternative paths to problem solving. The first book to trace the story of British "organic modernism", this ground-breaking open access study tells the story of a collective culture of artists, scientists, and designers in 20th century united by a holistic understanding of the organic world and devoted to collaboration, cooperation, and cross-pollination of the arts and biological sciences. Tracing how artists, scientists, and designers cooperated in various capacities from the Great Depression to postwar cybernetics, this book follows the evolution of philosophical organicism from the British Bauhaus, modern architecture, and surrealism; through to post-war socialism, the welfare state, epigenetics, biology-based art exhibitions; robotic art and design, cybernetics and ecology in art. Reacting against blunt reductionism, organic modernists implemented organicist and emergentist philosophies in scientific labs, design studios, and art ateliers, embracing complexity to solve problems in various scales and arenas, from cells to socialism. Their actions offer a template for finding meaningful agency and problem solving in today's world fraught by global climate disaster, ever-expanding economic inequalities, and backsliding democracyA sequel to Terranova's Art as Organism: Biology and the Evolution of the Digital Image (2016), Organic Modernism reveals the biological roots of cybernetics in the British context. 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 the Edith O'Donnell Institute of Art History.