Techniques of the observer
Jonathan Crary
Techniques of the observer : on vision and modernity in the nineteenth century /Jonathan Crary - Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press , ©1990. - 171 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Modernity and the problem of the observer --
The camera obscura and its subject --
Subjective vision and the separation of the senses --
Techniques of the observer --
Visionary abstraction.
This text considers the problem of visuality not through the study of art works and images, but by analyzing the historical construction of the observer. The author insists that the problems of vision are inseparable from the operation of social power and examines how, beginning in the 1820s, the observer became the site of new discourses and practices that situated vision within the body as a physiological event. In this context, he examines a range of diverse work in philosophy, in the empirical sciences, and in the elements of an emerging mass visual culture.
9780262531078
Vedi Books Pvt.Ltd ;Unit-3,Rahul Apartments 24/24 Ansari Road Daryaganj,New Delhi-2
Visual perception
Art and society--Art, Modern--Themes, motives
701.15 CRA
Techniques of the observer : on vision and modernity in the nineteenth century /Jonathan Crary - Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press , ©1990. - 171 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Modernity and the problem of the observer --
The camera obscura and its subject --
Subjective vision and the separation of the senses --
Techniques of the observer --
Visionary abstraction.
This text considers the problem of visuality not through the study of art works and images, but by analyzing the historical construction of the observer. The author insists that the problems of vision are inseparable from the operation of social power and examines how, beginning in the 1820s, the observer became the site of new discourses and practices that situated vision within the body as a physiological event. In this context, he examines a range of diverse work in philosophy, in the empirical sciences, and in the elements of an emerging mass visual culture.
9780262531078
Vedi Books Pvt.Ltd ;Unit-3,Rahul Apartments 24/24 Ansari Road Daryaganj,New Delhi-2
Visual perception
Art and society--Art, Modern--Themes, motives
701.15 CRA
