Publisher | Oxford University Press |
ISBN 13 | 9780195332933 |
ISBN 10 | 0195332938 |
Book Subtitle | Photography And The Twentieth-Century Word |
Book Description | Camera Works is about the impact of photography and film on modern art and literature. For many artists and writers, these new media offered hope of new means of representation, neither linguistic nor pictorial, but hovering in a kind of utopian space between. At the same time, the new media introduced a dramatic element of novelty into the age-old evidence of the senses. For the avant-garde, the challenges of the new media were the modern in its most concentrated form, but even for aesthetically unadventurous writers they constituted an element of modern experience that could hardly be ignored. Camera Works thus traces some of the more utopian |
Language | English |
Author | Michael North |
Publication Date | 26-Apr-15 |
Number of Pages | 276 |
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