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Enfoldment and infinity: an Islamic genealogy of new media art

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Field name	Details
ISBN	0262014211 (hbk.)
ISBN	9780262014212 (hbk.)
Author	Marks, Laura U. 1963-
Title	Enfoldment and infinity : an Islamic genealogy of new media art / [by] Laura U. Marks
Publisher	Cambridge, MA ; London : MIT Press, 2010
Physical desc.	x, 395 p., [16] p. of plates ; ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Series	Leonardo
Note	CBL illustrations: p. 202, fig. 7.8, plate 20, p. 299, fig. 10.7 (Is 1431, ff. 278b-279a).
Bibliography etc.	Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-374) and index
Contents	Getting things unfolded -- Islamic aesthetics and new media art: points of contact -- The haptic transfer and the travels of the abstract line, part I -- The haptic transfer and the travels of the abstract line, part II -- The haptic transfer and the travels of the abstract line, part III -- Baghdad, 830: birth of the algorithm -- Baghdad, 1000: origin of the pixel -- Cairo, 972: ancestor of the morph -- Herat, 1487: early virtual reality -- Karabagh, 1700: seeds of artificial life.
Subject	Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Is 1431
	New media art
	Islamic art
	Islamic arts
	Islam and art
	Aesthetics
	Aesthetics, Arab
	Aesthetics, Iranian
	Geometry in art

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