Techniques of the observer : on vision and modernity in the nineteenth century

著者

• Crary, Jonathan

書誌事項

Techniques of the observer : on vision and modernity in the nineteenth century

Jonathan Crary

（October books）

MIT Press, c1990

注記

Bibliographical references: p. [151]-162

Including index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

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.

目次

• 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.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA12122552
• ISBN:
  • 0262031698
• LCCN: 90006164
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Cambridge, Mass.
• ページ数/冊数: ix, 171 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : N7430.5
  • DC20 : 701/.15
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Visual perception
  • LCSH : Art, Modern -- 19th century -- Themes, motives
  • LCSH : Art and society -- History -- 19th century
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA12985286