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Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the 19th
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- Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the 19th
- ISBN
- 9780262531078
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- Publication Name
- Techniques of the Observer : on Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Subject
- General
- Publication Year
- 1992
- Series
- October Bks.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.4 in
- Features
- Reprint
- Item Weight
- 10.4 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.9 in
- Number of Pages
- 184 Pages
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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. In Techniques of the Observer Jonathan Crary provides a dramatically new perspective on the visual culture of the nineteenth century, reassessing problems of both visual modernism and social modernity. Inverting conventional approaches, Crary considers the problem of visuality not through the study of art works and images, but by analyzing the historical construction of the observer. He insists that the problems of vision are inseparable from the operation of social power and examines how, beginning in the 1820s, the observer became the site of new discourses and practices that situated vision within the body as a physiological event. Alongside the sudden appearance of physiological optics, Crary points out, theories and models of "subjective vision" were developed that gave the observer a new autonomy and productivity while simultaneously allowing new forms of control and standardization of vision. Crary examines a range of diverse work in philosophy, in the empirical sciences, and in the elements of an emerging mass visual culture. He discusses at length the significance of optical apparatuses such as the stereoscope and of precinematic devices, detailing how they were the product of new physiological knowledge. He also shows how these forms of mass culture, usually labeled as "realist," were in fact based on abstract models of vision, and he suggests that mimetic or perspectival notions of vision and representation were initially abandoned in the first half of the nineteenth century within a variety of powerful institutions and discourses, well before the modernist painting of the 1870s and 1880s.
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Publisher
MIT Press
ISBN-10
0262531070
ISBN-13
9780262531078
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75267
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Number of Pages
184 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Techniques of the Observer : on Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century
Publication Year
1992
Subject
General
Features
Reprint
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Design
Series
October Bks.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
10.4 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6.9 in
Additional Product Features
Dewey Edition
21
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"Nimbly interweaving the histories of science, technology, philosophy, popular culture, and the visual arts, Jonathan Crary provides a stunning challenge to conventional wisdom about the epochal transformation of visual culture in the nineteenth century. Techniques of the Observerwillbe a vital resource for anyone concerned with the complex interaction of technological modernization and aesthetic modernism." -Martin Jay, University of California at Berkeley
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College Graduate Student
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Yes
Dewey Decimal
701.1/5
Edition Description
Reprint
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N7430.5.C7 1992
Copyright Date
1992
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