This is the repository for Keep It Moving? Conserving Kinetic Art, Rachel Rivenc and Reinhard Bek, editors, published in March 2018 by the Getty Conservation Institute. It is available online at http://www.getty.edu/publications/keepitmoving and may be downloaded free of charge in multiple formats.
Kinetic art not only includes movement, but often depends on it to produce its intended effect and therefore fully realize its nature as work of art. It can take a multiplicity of forms and include a wide range of motion, from motorized and electrically driven movement to motion as the result of wind, light, or other sources of energy. Kinetic art emerged throughout the twentieth century and had its major developments in the 1950s and 1960s.
Professionals responsible for conserving contemporary art are in the midst of rethinking the concept of authenticity and solving the dichotomy often felt between original materials and functionality of the work of art. The contrast is especially acute with kinetic art when a compromise between the two often seems impossible. Also to be considered are issues of technological obsolescence and the fact that an artist’s chosen technology often carries with it strong sociological and historical information and meanings.
Presenting the latest research and scholarship on the topic with fifteen essays and eight posters, this online publication (also available for print-on-demand) includes videos to capture more accurately the effects conjured by kinetic artworks.
While stable, the structure and code of this repository are very much in a prototype stage. This is the latest in series of multiformat online collection catalogues using Quire, a new publishing framework built with Hugo, an open-source static site generator. Hugo and the other associated open-source software used here allow us to produce each format (e.g., PDF, EPUB, MOBI) from a single set of source files. Our aim is to use open web technologies and plain-text file formats to ensure the book’s longevity and portability, while still achieving a high level of design and interactivity.
Getty Publications is currently at work on more catalogues and other online publications, and we are refining our approach and rebuilding large portions of the code—all with an eye toward releasing a stable, open-source development-friendly version for broad use. Until then, making use of this existing project as the basis for new work is not recommended.
The content, on the other hand, is very stable. The research presented here has been thoroughly edited and peer-reviewed and meets the same standards the rest of our publications do. We are dedicated to maintaining the book for years to come at the permanent URL, http://www.getty.edu/publications/keepitmoving, and in its various formats and incarnations. For any updates to the book, we will be following something between an app and traditional book publication model. Updates will only be made in regulated chunks as formal revisions and new editions and will always be thoroughly documented here in the repository, as well as in the Revision History included with each of the book’s many formats.
The primary content pieces of the book can be found in the data and content directories. The master branch represents the current, published edition at all times, and the revisions branch, when present, will show changes currently under consideration. We invite you to submit suggestions or corrections via pull request on the revisions branch, by posting an issue, or by emailing us at pubsinfo@getty.edu.
- Node v8.9.1
- Quire CLI v0.1.0.alpha.1
- Hugo v0.31
- PrinceXML 11
The figure images for this publication are kept in a separate, private repository and linked to this main publication repository as a submodule. When cloning the repo for further development, you’ll need to do so recursively in order to clone both the main repo and the submodule.
git clone --recursive https://github.com/gettypubs/keepitmoving.git
Once cloned, you’ll need to change into the theme directory and install the project theme’s dependencies before running quire preview.
cd themes/quire-starter-theme-alpha
npm install
This project uses quire-starter-theme-alpha, which as its name suggests, is an alpha version of the main quire-starter-theme being developed for Quire.
Two files within the quire-starter-theme-alpha directory have been modified specifically for this publication:
source/css/_variables.scss: the$primary-colorvariable has been set to#9eb300source/js/search.js: theBASEURLfor the search index has been set tohttp://www.getty.edu/publications/keepitmoving
This is also the same themme used in Artistry in Bronze: The Greeks and Their Legacy. Other than for the two exceptions noted above, all differences between the two publications are done with local overrides in the specific project’s layouts and static directories.
© 2018 J. Paul Getty Trust.
Text by Rachel Rivenc, Reinhard Bek, and Timothy P. Whalen © 2018 J. Paul Getty Trust. All other text © the authors.
The text of this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. All images are reproduced with the permission of the rights holders acknowledged in captions and are expressly excluded from the CC BY license covering the rest of this publication. These images may not be reproduced, copied, transmitted, or manipulated without consent from the owners, who reserve all rights.