In Techniques of the Observer Jonathan Crary provides a dramatically new perspective on the visual culture of the nineteenth century, reassessing problems of both visual modernism and social modernity.Inverting conventional approaches, Crary considers the problem of visuality not through the study of art works and images, but by analyzing the historical construction of the observer. He 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. Alongside the sudden appearance of physiological optics, Crary points out, theories and models of "subjective vision" were developed that gave the observer a new autonomy and productivity while simultaneously allowing new forms of control and standardization of vision.Crary examines a range of diverse work in philosophy, in the empirical sciences, and in the elements of an emerging mass visual culture. He discusses at length the significance of optical apparatuses such as the stereoscope and of precinematic devices, detailing how they were the product of new physiological knowledge. He also shows how these forms of mass culture, usually labeled as "realist," were in fact based on abstract models of vision, and he suggests that mimetic or perspectival notions of vision and representation were initially abandoned in the first half of the nineteenth century within a variety of powerful institutions and discourses, well before the modernist painting of the 1870s and 1880s.Jonathan Crary is Assistant Professor of Art History at Barnard College and Columbia University. He is a founding editor of Zone and Zone Books.
乔纳森·克拉里,美国当代艺术评论家,哥伦比亚大学当代艺术与理论迈耶·夏皮洛教席讲座教授,“区域丛书”(Zone Books)主编,《十月》杂志(October)编辑顾问,著有《观察者的技术:论19世纪的视觉与现代性》《知觉的悬置:注意力、景观与现代文化》《24/7:晚期资本主义与睡眠的终结》等书。
克拉里最精彩的论述之一在于通过对暗箱(camera obscura)和摄影技术所代表的“认识型”的区分,完成了对现代性起源的重新断代。书中提到,在传统艺术史中,暗箱的操作原理常常被看作是摄影和之后的电影技术的先驱,因为它们都基于单点透视成像。摄影技术也常常因此被看做是视...
评分一句话总结: The question of the vision in the age of modernity (the making of the modern observer) is foremost an epistemological question than an aesthetic one that is substantially grounded in the development of bio-sciences and advancement of optic tech...
评分《破報》於10月11日(第481期)刊登了一篇書評——林婉文〈100年內人類的視覺革命及其影響:《觀察者的技術:論十九世紀的視覺與現代性》〉(http://pots.tw/node/2772)。問題在於,它幾乎錯失了《觀察者的技術》的真正內容,而這種錯失,很難說是對於書中論點的「另類詮釋」...
评分一句话总结: The question of the vision in the age of modernity (the making of the modern observer) is foremost an epistemological question than an aesthetic one that is substantially grounded in the development of bio-sciences and advancement of optic tech...
评分一句话总结: The question of the vision in the age of modernity (the making of the modern observer) is foremost an epistemological question than an aesthetic one that is substantially grounded in the development of bio-sciences and advancement of optic tech...
Excellent book for those who needs a thorough philosophical and historical reading on VISION. While the discussion is restricted to the 19th century, it's definitely enlightening on the subject in general.
评分Excellent book for those who needs a thorough philosophical and historical reading on VISION. While the discussion is restricted to the 19th century, it's definitely enlightening on the subject in general.
评分很多艺术评论者在运用社会理论的时候,总让人觉得ta没有很享受自己的写作过程,Crary的写作也常有类似的情况……掌握的材料非常丰富,勾起对各种光学装置和小物件的玩心(如果今生可能策展,很想做这个),描述绘画作品时能看到热情和敏锐的感受力,却总是突然转向黯淡的落脚点,意犹未尽。这本的续集Suspensions of Perception也有相同的问题。另:Crary对“天真之眼”的看法相当消极,他对transparency/opacity对立的视觉观和很多评论者的看法是正好颠倒的,也暗含了他的价值判断。
评分来眼科医院,恰好带了这本,还蛮应景的。一个下午过去,书读完了,队还没排到…读起来不轻松,涉及的理论体系多,一些光学原理又比较复杂,加上每次读间隔时间太长,重新拿起时总是忘了多半,只能晕晕乎乎硬着头皮念下去。其实许多地方还是很受启发的,但整体有些晦涩,和艺术史关系也比较间接,就不推荐啦
评分很多艺术评论者在运用社会理论的时候,总让人觉得ta没有很享受自己的写作过程,Crary的写作也常有类似的情况……掌握的材料非常丰富,勾起对各种光学装置和小物件的玩心(如果今生可能策展,很想做这个),描述绘画作品时能看到热情和敏锐的感受力,却总是突然转向黯淡的落脚点,意犹未尽。这本的续集Suspensions of Perception也有相同的问题。另:Crary对“天真之眼”的看法相当消极,他对transparency/opacity对立的视觉观和很多评论者的看法是正好颠倒的,也暗含了他的价值判断。
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