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On Not Looking : The Paradox of Contemporary Visual Culture

Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2015

Online-Ressource (285 p)

Englisch

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART I Images that Don't Look; 1 Not Looking into the Abyss: The Potentiality to See; 2 The Rest Is Noise: On Lossless; 3 The Men in the Bathroom: Reflections on William E. Jones's Tearoom; PART II The Privilege of the Other Senses; 4 Peripatetic Sculpture: The Exhaustion of Looking in the Presence of Richard Serra's Promenade; 5 Burrowing under the Apparent: The Blindfold Drawings of Claude Heath; PART III Not Looking at Bodies and Cultures on the Margins; 6 ©AMOUFLAGE

7 The Horizon to Come: Planetary Aesthetics in William Kentridge's Felix in Exile and Galileo Galilei's Moon Drawings8 Between Looking and Not Looking: Race, Spectacular Scenes, and Counter-Spectacular Effects in Paul Pfeiffer's Long Count Series; PART IV Institutions Overpower Images; 9 Looking at the West Looking Away: Khmer Rouge, Western Blindness, and Documentary Images; 10 The "Coffin," the Camera, and the Commodity: Visualizing American Military Dead at Dover; 11 Lessons from the Life of an Image: Malcolm Browne's Photograph of Thich Quang Duc's Self-Immolation; Contributors; Index

Description based upon print version of record

Print version: On Not Looking: The Paradox of Contemporary Visual Culture

978-1-138-82235-1

978-1-138-82235-1 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 1020498451     

978-1-317-58740-8 ( : 153.69 (NL))

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Aggregator-Datenbank (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

BF241 .O5 2015

306.4/7 ; 306.4/7     Ähnliche Literatur

LOC-SH: Electronic books

Visual perception.. ; Cognition and culture.. ; Art and society.. ; Art ; Philosophy ; Electronic books

On Not Looking: The Paradox of Contemporary Visual Culture focuses on the image, and our relationship to it, as a site of ""not looking."" The collection demonstrates that even though we live in an image-saturated culture, many images do not look at what they claim, viewers often do not look at the images, and in other cases, we are encouraged by the context of exhibition not to look at images. Contributors discuss an array of images-photographs, films, videos, press images, digital images, paintings, sculptures, and drawings-from everyday life, museums and galleries, and institutional context