Tricks of the Light: Essays on Art and Spectacle by Crary, Jonathan

Tricks of the Light: Essays on Art and Spectacle

Essays on media systems and contemporary art by a leading theorist of modern visual culture Tricks of...
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Author: Jonathan Crary
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Tricks of the Light: Essays on Art and Spectacle by Crary, Jonathan

Tricks of the Light: Essays on Art and Spectacle

€44,55

Tricks of the Light: Essays on Art and Spectacle

€44,55
Author: Jonathan Crary
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Essays on media systems and contemporary art by a leading theorist of modern visual culture

Tricks of the Light brings together essays by critic and art historian Jonathan Crary, internationally known for his groundbreaking and widely admired studies of modern Western visual culture. This collection features a compelling selection of Crary's responses to modern and contemporary art and to the transformations of twentieth-century media systems and urban/technological environments. These wide-ranging and provocative texts explore the work of painters, performance artists, writers, architects, and photographers, including Allan Kaprow, Eleanor Antin, Ed Ruscha, John Berger, Bridget Riley, J.G. Ballard, Rem Koolhaas, Gretchen Bender, Dennis Oppenheim, Paul Virilio, Robert Irwin, and Uta Barth. There are also reflections on filmmakers Fritz Lang, Stanley Kubrick, Jean-Luc-Godard, David Cronenberg, and others. The book is enhanced by several expansive essays on the unstable status of television, both amid its beginnings in the 1930s and then during its assimilation into new assemblages and networks in the 1980s and 90s. These assess its many-sided role in the reshaping of subjectivity, temporality, and the operation of power. Like all of Crary's work, his writing here is grounded in the acuteness of his engagement with perceptual artifacts of many kinds and in his nuanced reading of historical processes and their cultural reverberations.

Author: Jonathan Crary
Publisher: Zone Books
Published: 08/22/2023
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.10w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781942130857


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/12/2023

About the Author
Jonathan Crary is the Meyer Schapiro Professor of Modern Art and Theory at Columbia University. His books include Techniques of the Observer, Suspensions of Perception, and 24/7.

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