Tricks of the Light: Essays on Art and Spectacle Crary Jonathan
Tricks of the Light: Essays on Art and Spectacle Crary Jonathan Essays on media systems and contemporary art by a leading theorist of modern visual cultureTricks of the Light brings together essays…
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Tricks of the Light: Essays on Art and Spectacle Crary Jonathan
Essays on media systems and contemporary art by a leading theorist of modern visual cultureTricks of the Light brings together essays by critic and art historian Jonathan Crary, internationally known for his groundbreaking and widely admired studies of modern Western visual culture. These wide-ranging and provocative texts explore the work of painters, performance artists, writers, architects, and photographers, including Allan Kaprow, Eleanor Antin, Ed Ruscha, John Berger, Bridget Riley, J.G. This collection features a compelling selection of Crary's responses to modern and contemporary art and to the transformations of twentieth-century media systems and urban/technological environments.
There are also reflections on filmmakers Fritz Lang, Stanley Kubrick, Ballard, Rem Koolhaas, Gretchen Bender, Dennis Oppenheim, Paul Virilio, Robert Irwin, and Uta Barth.