Suspensions of Perception
Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture
Suspensions of Perception decisively relocates the problem of aesthetic contemplation within a broader collective encounter with the unstable nature of perception—in psychology, philosophy, neurology, early cinema, and photography.Suspensions of Perception is a major historical study of human attention and its volatile role in modern Western culture. It argues that the ways in which we intently look at or listen to anything result from crucial changes in the nature of perception that can be traced back to the second half of the nineteenth century.Focusing on the period from about 1880 to 1905, Jonathan Crary examines the connections between t…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-262-53199-3
- EAN: 9780262531993
- Produktnummer: 8424773
- Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 410 S.
- Masse: H22.7 cm x B17.4 cm x D2.7 cm 774 g
- Gewicht: 774
- Sonstiges: Undergraduate
Über den Autor
Jonathan Crary is Meyer Schapiro Professor of Modern Art and Theory at Columbia University. A founding editor of Zone Books, he is the author of Techniques of the Observer (MIT Press, 1990) and coeditor of Incorporations (Zone Books, 1992). He has been the recipient of Guggenheim, Getty, Mellon, and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships and was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
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