Art as Far as the Eye Can See - Paperback

$39.01

Art as Far as the Eye Can See - Paperback

Name: Art as Far as the Eye Can See - Paperback
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SKU: 9781847885401
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by Paul Virilio

$39.01

Book Overview

Paul Virilio puts art back where it matters - at the centre of politics. Art used to be an engagement between artist and materials. But in our new media world art has changed, its very materials have changed and have become technologized.

This change reflects a broader social shift. Speed and politics - what Virilio defined as the key characteristics of the twentieth century - have been transformed in the twenty-first century to speed and mass culture. And the defining characteristic of mass culture today is panic.

This induced panic relies on a new, all-seeing technology. And the first casualty of this is the human response. What we are losing is the very human 'art of seeing', one individual's engagement with another or with an event, be that political or artistic. What we are losing is our sense of the aesthetic. Where art used to talk of the aesthetics of disappearance, it must now confront the disappearance of the aesthetic.

ISBN	9781847885401
Author	Paul Virilio
Publisher	Berg Publishers
Genre	Arts
Format	Paperback
Published	March 2010
Language	ENG- English
Pages	144
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Adults
Print Size	Standard Print