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Modernist Avant-Garde Aesthetics and Contemporary Military Technology: Technicities of Perception

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Description for Modernist Avant-Garde Aesthetics and Contemporary Military Technology: Technicities of Perception Paperback. Examines the tensions between the aims of military technology and modernist aesthetics in relation to perception. Newly available in paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, 23 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; DSBH; TTM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 158 x 15. Weight in Grams: 392.
Examines the tensions between the aims of military technology and modernist aesthetics in relation to perception. A basic aim of visual technologies is to collapse perception with the perceived object. Modernist aesthetics shows that an irreducible element of time and space always remains. Military technology tends towards the impossible goal of eliminating this dimension; modernist aesthetics exploits it. Placing military operations alongside modernist aesthetics reveals the civic sphere suspended between two incompatible desires. Reading the art and writing of Djuna Barnes, Joseph Conrad, Marcel Duchamp, James Joyce, Mina Loy, Stephane Mallarme, the Italian Futurists and H. G. Wells against Apache ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
248
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748643196
SKU
V9780748643196
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About Ryan Bishop
Ryan Bishop is Professor of Global Arts and Politics at Winchester School of Art, the University of Southampton. He is the editor of Baudrillard Now: Current Perspectives in Baudrillard Studies (Polity Press 2009), co-editor, with John Phillips and Wei-Wei Yeo, of Beyond Description: Space Historicity Singapore (Routledge, 2004), co-editor, with John Phillips and Wei-Wei Yeo, of Postcolonial Urbanism: Southeast Asian ... Read more

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