Description: Further DetailsTitle: On SlownessCondition: NewEAN: 9780231168328ISBN: 9780231168328Publisher: Columbia University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 10/07/2014Item Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Lutz KoepnickLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Toward an Aesthetic of the ContemporaryISBN-10: 0231168322Description: Speed is an obvious facet of contemporary society, whereas slowness has often been dismissed as conservative and antimodern. Challenging a long tradition of thought, Lutz Koepnick instead proposes we understand slowness as a strategy of the contemporary-a decidedly modern practice that gazes firmly at and into the present's velocity. As he engages with late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century art, photography, video, film, and literature, Koepnick explores slowness as a critical medium to intensify our temporal and spatial experiences. Slowness helps us register the multiple layers of time, history, and motion that constitute our present. It offers a timely (and untimely) mode of aesthetic perception and representation that emphasizes the openness of the future and undermines any conception of the present as a mere replay of the past.Discussing the photography and art of Janet Cardiff, Olafur Eliasson, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Michael Wesely; the films of Peter Weir and Tom Tykwer; the video installations of Douglas Gordon, Willie Doherty, and Bill Viola; and the fiction of Don DeLillo, Koepnick shows how slowness can carve out spaces within processes of acceleration that allow us to reflect on alternate temporalities and durations.Country/Region of Manufacture: USBook Series: Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the ArtsGenre: Arts & PhotographyTopic: Philosophy & SpiritualityRelease Year: 2014 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: On Slowness
Title: On Slowness
EAN: 9780231168328
ISBN: 9780231168328
Release Date: 10/07/2014
Release Year: 2014
Subtitle: Toward an Aesthetic of the Contemporary
ISBN-10: 0231168322
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Arts & Photography
Topic: Philosophy & Spirituality
Number of Pages: 336 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: On Slowness : Toward an Aesthetic of the Contemporary
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Item Height: 0.1 in
Publication Year: 2014
Subject: Criticism & Theory, Social History, Aesthetics, History, Film / History & Criticism
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 20.2 Oz
Author: Lutz P. Koepnick
Subject Area: Art, Philosophy, Performing Arts, Photography, History
Item Length: 0.9 in
Series: Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts Ser.
Item Width: 0.6 in
Format: Hardcover
