Vanishing Points : Articulations of Death, Fragmentation, and the Unexperienced Experience of Created Objects

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chuk, Natasha.

Contributor:

Rose, Holly, Contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Study and teaching.

Communication in art.

Composition (Art).

Local Subjects:

Architecture--Study and teaching.

Communication in art.

Composition (Art).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (204 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Intellect, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Deftly deploying Jacques Derrida's notion of the 'unexperienced experience' and building on Paul Virilio's ideas about the aesthetics of disappearance, Vanishing Points explores the aesthetic character of presence and absence as articulated in contemporary art, photography, film, and emerging media. Addressing works ranging from Robert Rauschenberg to Six Feet Under, Natasha Chuk emphasizes the notion that art is an accident, an event, which registers numerous overlapping, contradictory orientations, orvanishing points, between its own components and the viewers' perspective - generating the p

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword by Victor Vitanza; Introduction; Chapter 1: Ruptures: Negation in the Created Object; Chapter 2: Art and Unexperienced Experience; Chapter 3: Memorialization and Objects of the Dead; Chapter 4: The Apparatus and the Unfixed Vanishing Point; Chapter 5: Presence, Absence, and Play in the Hyperreal Spaces of Computation; Chapter 6: Traces of Absence in Photography: Dina Kantor and Alec Soth; Chapter 7: The Cost of Burying the Dead: Six Feet Under; Epilogue: Resisting Arrest: The Elusive Vanishing Point; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-78320-478-8