Impossible presence : surface and screen in the photogenic era / edited by Terry Smith.

Other author Smith, Terry (Terry E.)
Format Book
Publication InfoChicago, IL : University of Chicago Press, ©2001.
Description309 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects

Contents Enervation, viscerality: the fate of the image in modernity / Terry Smith -- Too much is not enough: metamorphoses of Times Square / Marshall Berman -- New thresholds of vision: instantaneous photography and the early cinema of Lumière / Tom Gunning -- Through a fishwife's eye: between Benjamin and Deleuze on the timely image / Peter J. Hutchings -- Realism of low resolution: digitisation and modern painting / Richard Shiff -- Beauty and the contemporary sublime / Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe -- Andy Warhol: snobbish machine / Jean Baudrillard -- Andy Warhol: chiasmatic visibility / Hugh J. Silverman -- Naked / Elizabeth Grosz -- Visceral cholos: desublimation and the critique of Mestizaje in the Bolivian Andes / Javier Sanjines -- Traffic in culture: on knowing Pintupi painting / Fred R. Myers -- Warped space: architectural anxiety in digital culture / Anthony Vidler.
General noteEssays originally given as lectures at the Power Institute, Centre for Art and Visual Culture, University of Sydney.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
LCCN 2001023772
ISBN0226763846 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0226763854 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks N66 .I48 2001 ✔ Available Place Hold