|
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies
|
Buy Now
Surface - Matters of Aesthetics, Materiality, and Media (Paperback)
Loot Price: R1,217
Discovery Miles 12 170
|
|
|
Surface - Matters of Aesthetics, Materiality, and Media (Paperback)
Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days
|
What is the place of materiality the expression or condition of
physical substance in our visual age of rapidly changing materials
and media? How is it fashioned in the arts or manifested in virtual
forms? In Surface, cultural critic and theorist Giuliana Bruno
deftly explores these questions, seeking to understand materiality
in the contemporary world. Arguing that materiality is not a
question of the materials themselves but rather the substance of
material relations, Bruno investigates the space of those
relations, examining how they appear on the surface of different
media on film and video screens, in gallery installations, or on
the skins of buildings and people. The object of visual studies,
she contends, goes well beyond the image and engages the surface as
a place of contact between people and art objects. As Bruno threads
through these surface encounters, she unveils the fabrics of the
visual the textural qualities of works of art, whether manifested
on canvas, wall, or screen. Illuminating the modern surface
condition, she notes how fa ades are becoming virtual screens and
the art of projection is reinvented on gallery walls. She traverses
the light spaces of artists Robert Irwin, James Turrell, Tacita
Dean, and Anthony McCall; touches on the textured surfaces of Isaac
Julien's and Wong Kar-wai's filmic screens; and travels across the
surface materiality in the architectural practices of Diller
Scofidio + Renfro and Herzog & de Meuron to the art of Doris
Salcedo and Rachel Whiteread, where the surface tension of media
becomes concrete. In performing these critical operations on the
surface, she articulates it as a site in which different forms of
mediation, memory, and transformation can take place. Surveying
object relations across art, architecture, fashion, design, film,
and new media, Surface is a magisterial account of contemporary
visual culture.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
(1)
(1)
(1)
