Distant early warning : Marshall McLuhan and the transformation of the avant-garde / Alex Kitnick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kitnick, Alex, 1981- author.

Series:

Chicago scholarship online.

Chicago scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

McLuhan, Marshall, 1911-1980.

McLuhan, Marshall.

Avant-garde (Aesthetics).

Art, Modern--20th century--Philosophy.

Art, Modern.

Art criticism--History--20th century.

Art criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.) : 56 halftones

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2021.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) is best known as a media theorist - many consider him the founder of media studies - but he was an important theorist of art, too. A near-household name for decades, McLuhan remains a fascinating and even cultish figure in art history. However, his connections with the art of his own time has been largely unexplored. Art historian Alex Kitnick delves into these rich connections and argues both that McLuhan was influenced by art and artists and, more interestingly, that McLuhan's work directly influenced the art and artists of his time. Kitnick builds the story of McLuhan's entanglement with artists by carefully forging connections between him, his theories, and the artists themselves. The story is packed with big names: Marcel Duchamp, Jasper Johns, Niki de Saint Phalle, Andy Warhol, Nam June Paik, and others.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

1. The Age of Mechanical Production

2. What It Means to Be Avant-Garde

3. Lights On

4. Electronic Opera

5. Massage, ca. 1966

6. Information Environment

7. Culture Was His Business

Postscript: McLuhan’s Art Today

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 7, 2021).

ISBN:

9780226753591

022675359X

OCLC:

1251446821