The Art of Subtraction: Digital Adaptation and the Object Image - Hardcover

Lessard, Bruno

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1442631910 ISBN 13: 9781442631915

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 2017

Synopsis

The Art of Subtraction is the first full-length study on the CD-ROM as a creative platform. Bruno Lessard traces the rise and relatively rapid fall of the CD-ROM in the 1980s and 1990s and its impact as a creative platform for media artists such as Jean-Louis Boissier, Zoe Beloff, Adriene Jenik, and Chris Marker. Although the CD-ROM was not a lasting commercial success it was a vibrant medium that allowed for experimentation in adapting literary works. Building on the work of Gilles Deleuze and Michele Foucault, Lessard establishes a comparative framework for linking digital adaptations with innovative concepts such as 'subtractive adaptation' and the 'object image' that will be of interest to researchers examining literary adaptations on other digital platforms such as websites, smart phones, tablets, and digital games. The Art of Subtraction is a fascinating study of intermediality in the late twentieth century and it provides the first chapter in the yet unwritten history of digital adaptation.

About this title

About the Author

Bruno Lessard is an associate professor in the School of Image Arts at Ryerson University.

Review

"In The Art of Subtraction, Bruno Lessard displays a dazzling mastery of several fields including literary theory and study, cultural theory, and new media history."

(Will Straw, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University)

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1442631910
• ISBN 13: 9781442631915
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 248