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Slow Art: The Experience of Looking, Sacred Images to James Turrell
Arden Reed
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Description for Slow Art: The Experience of Looking, Sacred Images to James Turrell
Hardback. Americans, on average, spend between six and ten seconds looking at individual artworks in museums or galleries. This book dwells upon various media-photography, painting, sculpture, "living pictures," film, video, digital and performance art - and even light, time, and space, from both the present and past. Num Pages: 344 pages, 10 color photographs, 99 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; ACX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178. .
Americans, on average, spend between six and ten seconds with individual artworks in museums or galleries-hardly time enough. But how, in our culture of distraction, might we extend attention? Slow Art models sustained ways of looking, through encounters with various media both present and past-including photography, painting, sculpture, living pictures, film, video, digital and performance art-even light and space. Works by Diderot, Emma Hamilton, Oscar Wilde, Jeff Wall, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Andy Warhol, and Richard Serra, among others, shape a new and distinct aesthetic field. But rather than a collection of objects, slow art is participatory-it directly engages beholders ... Read more
Americans, on average, spend between six and ten seconds with individual artworks in museums or galleries-hardly time enough. But how, in our culture of distraction, might we extend attention? Slow Art models sustained ways of looking, through encounters with various media both present and past-including photography, painting, sculpture, living pictures, film, video, digital and performance art-even light and space. Works by Diderot, Emma Hamilton, Oscar Wilde, Jeff Wall, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Andy Warhol, and Richard Serra, among others, shape a new and distinct aesthetic field. But rather than a collection of objects, slow art is participatory-it directly engages beholders ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520285507
SKU
V9780520285507
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About Arden Reed
Arden Reed is Arthur and Fanny Dole Professor of English at Pomona College. He writes on the visual arts and literature, and his publications include Manet, Flaubert, and the Emergence of Modernism and Romantic Weather: The Climates of Coleridge and Baudelaire.
Reviews for Slow Art: The Experience of Looking, Sacred Images to James Turrell
.. .what in another writer's hands might have been a dry academic treatise turns out to be a lively ramble through high and low culture, touching on the likes of Diderot, Goethe, David Foster Wallace, Susan Sontag, Sleeping Beauty, the Countess de Castiglione and Andy Warhol.
Wall Street Journal Reed seeds his profundities throughout Slow Art in example after ... Read more
Wall Street Journal Reed seeds his profundities throughout Slow Art in example after ... Read more