What Philosophy Wants from Images / D. N. Rodowick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rodowick, D. N., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Social aspects.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In recent decades, contemporary art has displayed an ever increasing and complicated fascination with the cinema-or, perhaps more accurately, as D. N. Rodowick shows, a certain memory of cinema. Contemporary works of film, video, and moving image installation mine a vast and virtual archive of cultural experience through elliptical and discontinuous fragments of remembered images, even as the lived experience of film and photography recedes into the past, supplanted by the digital. Rodowick here explores work by artists such as Ken Jacobs, Ernie Gehr, Victor Burgin, Harun Farocki, and others-artists who are creating forms that express a new historical consciousness of images. These forms acknowledge a complex relationship to the disappearing past even as they point toward new media that will challenge viewers' confidence in what the images they see are or are becoming. What philosophy wants from images, Rodowick shows, is to renew itself conceptually through deep engagement with new forms of aesthetic experience.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

1. The Memory of Cinema

2. The Queer Attractions of Perceptual Belief

3. A Virtual Presence in Space

4. Harun Farocki's Liberated Consciousness

5. The Force of Small Gestures

Epilogue: Welcome to This Situation

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 22. Okt 2019)

ISBN:

9780226513225

022651322X

OCLC:

1017804373