Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the 19th Century
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,...
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dramatically new perspective on the visual culture of the nineteenth century, reassessing problems of both visual modernism and social modernityBooknewsCrary (art history, Bernard College and Columbia U.) outlines a genealogy of vision that challenges some standard assumptions about the history of film, photography, and modernist art. He argues against a continuity of Renaissance traditions, and for an abrupt break from classical models early in the 19th century. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Acknowledgments1. Modernity and the Problem of the Observer2. The Camera Obscura and Its Subject3. Subjective Vision and the Separation of the Senses4. Techniques of the Observer5. Visionary AbstractionBibliographyIndeX
\ BooknewsCrary (art history, Bernard College and Columbia U.) outlines a genealogy of vision that challenges some standard assumptions about the history of film, photography, and modernist art. He argues against a continuity of Renaissance traditions, and for an abrupt break from classical models early in the 19th century. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
