Catalogue

Record Details

Catalogue Search



Tricks of the light : essays on art and spectacle  Cover Image E-book E-book

Tricks of the light : essays on art and spectacle / Jonathan Crary.

Crary, Jonathan, (author.).

Summary:

"This book features essays on modern and contemporary art and media systems"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 1942130864
  • ISBN: 9781942130864
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (270 pages) : illustrations, map
  • Publisher: New York : Zone Books, 2023.

Content descriptions

General Note:
CatMonthString:september.23
Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Allan Kaprow's "Activities" -- Marcel Duchamp's The Passage from Virgin to Bride -- Eleanor Antin's Nomadic Itineraries -- Ed Ruscha's Real Estate Opportunities -- Dennis Oppenheim's Delirious Operations -- Peter Fend's Global Architecture -- Psychopathways: Horror Movies and the Technology of Everyday Life -- Eclipse of the Spectacle -- J. G. Ballard and the Promiscuity of Forms -- Gretchen Bender's Total Recall -- Spectacle, Attention, Counter-Memory -- Notes on Rem Koolhaas and Modernization -- Dr. Mabuse and Mr. Edison
Dan Flavin and the Desymbolization of Light -- Fitful Tracings: David Hockney on Art and Optics -- Blade Runner, Artifact of the 1980s -- Robert Irwin and the Condition of Twilight -- Cerith Wyn Evans's Luminous Stagings -- Color Plates -- Spinning Histories at the Sydney Biennial -- Bridget Riley's Activations of the Eye -- Paul Virilio's Aesthetics of Disappearance -- On Jean-Luc Godard's Histoire(s) du cin�ema -- Uta Barth: The Singularity of the Everyday -- John Berger, Art Critic in Dark Times -- Terminal Radiance -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- Image Credits
Type of Computer File or Data Note:
Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:
Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:
Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff.
Access restricted by subscription.
Issuing Body Note:
Made available online by JSTOR.
Source of Description Note:
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 14, 2023).
Subject: Arts and society > History > 20th century.
Arts and society > History > 21st century.
ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
Arts and society.
Genre: Electronic books.
History.


Additional Resources