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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 701.15
Fabric Type: 9780262531078
Legal Disclaimer: 0262531070
Maximum Color Depth: The MIT Press
Metal Type: The MIT Press
Publisher: 1
Region Code: 183
Total External Bays Free: February 25, 1992
Total Firewire Ports: The MIT Press
The MIT Press
Features:- ISBN13: 9780262531078
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
"Crary outlines a genealogy of vision that challenges some standard assumptions about the history of film, photography, and modernist art. He argues against a continuity of Renaissance traditions, and for an abrupt break from classical models early in the 19th century." -- Booknews
Jonathan Crary's Techniques of the Observer provides a dramatically new perspective on the visual culture of the nineteenth century, reassessing problems of both visual modernism and social modernity. This analysis of the historical formation of the observer is a compelling account of the prehistory of `the society of the spectacle.'
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lt tall me how to see,who to READ the wold.I get many important concept.
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HUGE thumbs up. Crary historicizes technological vision and illuminates an underrepresented point: things we're taught to think of as objective, such as cameras and vision, are in fact quite subjective and historical. They're ideas first, which means social/cultural ideas, from design to usage. Gradually these cultural ideas plus economic and technological possibility fuse into 'things'. The social aspects get invisibly embedded into these 'things' through myths of objectivity and modern people's ... Read More
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Crary presents some interesting views on the perception of art. I found that it took a while for his ideas to formulate - the writing tends to be a bit wordy. I would recommend the book with reservations - really only for the serious academic reader. Not a casual bedside book.
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