Robot: A Visual Atlas from Ancient Greece to Artificial Intelligence
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| Rating | : | 4.81 (622 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 8866483710 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the Author Luca Beatrice is an art critic and curator, as well as a lecturer in Contemporary Art History at Turin's Accademia Albertina. He has published several critical texts on established and emerging artists, along with numerous volumes on the relationship between the visual arts, music and cinema.
They star in innumerable comic strips and cartoons (from Astro Boy to Marvel comics and Japanese manga). In fact, every form of cultural expression has at some point investigated the rich and stimulating field of robotics, reaching different conclusions and outcomes every time. Robots have infiltrated our social consciousness. They are everywhere, from Leonardo da Vinci's drummer robot to the futurist man-machine; from Frankenstein to the works of Isaac Asimov and Philip Dick, inventor of the 'replicant'; from Edward Gordon Craig's theory of the actor as a super-puppet to Daft Punk and Kraftwerk, the krautrock band who used replica mannequins of themselves at the end of their concert. Fields li
He has published several critical texts on established and emerging artists, along with numerous volumes on the relationship between the visual arts, music and cinema. Luca Beatrice is an art critic and curator, as well as a lecturer in Contemporary Art History at Turin's Accademia Albertina.