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From pure visibility to virtual reality in an age of estrangement / John Adkins Richardson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Richardson, John Adkins.
- Series:
- Critical perspectives on culture and society 1097-5020
- Critical perspectives on culture and society, 1097-5020
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art, Modern.
- Modernism (Art).
- Art and society.
- Alienation (Social psychology).
- Physical Description:
- x, 227 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1998.
- Summary:
- Discusses not only traditional forms of art, but the Star Wars films and digital fantasies of the future in his meditation on the contents of form in art through the last seven centuries.
- Contents:
- 1. Pure Visibility and the Emergence of Formalism 7
- 2. Estrangement and the Nature of Modernity 39
- 3. Estrangement and the Taste for Fragmentation 75
- 4. The Arriere-Garde Character of the Vanguard 117
- 5. Substance and Shadow at the Close of the Second Millennium 151.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-213) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0275960889
- OCLC:
- 38249639
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