An edition of Suspensions of perception (1999)

Suspensions of perception

attention, spectacle, and modern culture

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An edition of Suspensions of perception (1999)

Suspensions of perception

attention, spectacle, and modern culture

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"Suspensions of Perception is a major historical study of human attention and its volatile role in modern Western culture. It argues that the ways in which we intently look at or listen to anything result from crucial changes in the nature of perception that can be traced back to the second half of the nineteenth century.".

"Crary approaches these issues through analyses of works by three key modernist painters - Manet, Seurat, and Cezanne - who each engaged in a singular confrontation with the disruptions, vacancies, and rifts within a perceptual field. Each in his own way discovered that sustained attentiveness, rather than fixing or securing the world, led to perceptual disintegration and loss of presence, and each used this discovery as the basis for a reinvention of representation practices.".

"This book decisively relocates the problem of aesthetic contemplation within a broader collective encounter with the unstable nature of perception - in psychology, philosophy, neurology, early cinema, and photography. In doing so, it provides a historical framework for understanding the current social crisis of attention amid the accelerating metamorphoses of our contemporary technological culture."--BOOK JACKET.

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Publisher
MIT Press
Language
English
Pages
397

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-377) and index.
"October books."

Published in
Cambridge, Mass

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
153.7
Library of Congress
BF378.S45 C73 1999, BF378.S45C73 1999, BF378.S45 C73 1999eb

The Physical Object

Pagination
x,397 p. :
Number of pages
397

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL38223M
Internet Archive
suspensionsofper0000crar
ISBN 10
0262032651
LCCN
99026071
OCLC/WorldCat
45728041, 41131745
Library Thing
36068
Goodreads
1972217

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