Slow Art - The Experience of Looking, Sacred Images to James Turrell Reed ArdenPaperback softback
Slow Art - The Experience of Looking, Sacred Images to James Turrell Reed ArdenPaperback softback Americans, on average, spend between six and ten seconds with individual artworks in museums or…
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Slow Art - The Experience of Looking, Sacred Images to James Turrell Reed ArdenPaperback softback
Americans, on average, spend between six and ten seconds with individual artworks in museums or galleries--hardly time enough. Slow Art models sustained ways of looking, through encounters with various media both present and past--including photography, painting, sculpture, "living pictures," film, video, digital and performance art--even light and space. But how, in our culture of distraction, might we extend attention?
But rather than a collection of objects, slow art is participatory--it directly engages beholders to bring artworks to life. Works by Diderot, Emma Hamilton, Oscar Wilde, Jeff Wall, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Andy Warhol, and Richard Serra, among others, shape a new and distinct aesthetic field. Against current orthodoxy, Arden Reed argues that, for contemporary viewers, the contemplation of slow art is akin to religious practices during the ages of