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From Light to Dark - Daylight, Illumination, and Gloom (Hardcover)
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From Light to Dark - Daylight, Illumination, and Gloom (Hardcover)
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Light pervades the world, and when it is not light, darkness
emerges and is combated by electric illumination. Despite this
globally shared human experience in which spaces appear radically
different depending on time, season, and weather, social science
investigation on the subject is meager. From Light to Dark fills
this gap, focusing on our interaction with daylight, illumination,
and darkness. Tim Edensor begins by examining the effects of
daylight on our perception of landscape, drawing on artworks,
particular landscapes, and architectural practice. He then
considers the ways in which illumination is often contested and can
be used to express power, looking at how capitalist, class, ethnic,
military, and state power use lighting to reinforce their authority
over space. Edensor also considers light artists such as Olafur
Eliasson and festivals of illumination before turning a critical
eye to the supposedly dangerous, sinister associations of darkness.
In examining the modern city as a space of fantasy through electric
illumination, he studies how we are seeking-and should seek-new
forms of darkness in reaction to the perpetual glow of urban
lighting. Highly original and absorbingly written, From Light to
Dark analyzes a vast array of artistic interventions, diverse
spaces, and lighting technologies to explore these most basic human
experiences.
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