ARTIFICIAL DARKNESS: AN OBSCURE HISTORY OF MODERN ART AND MEDIA.
Language: English
Published by University Of Chicago Press, Chicago And London, 2016
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Large 8vo. pp: xi, 306. First edition. Original publisher's black cloth boards with debossed dark grey lettering at spine in original publisher's black, grey and white illustrated dust jacket. Richly illustrated with photographs and drawings in black and white. ISBN: 9780226328973 Dust jacket is very lightly creased along top and bottom edges. Otherwise tight and internally perfectly clean copy. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
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- Title
- ARTIFICIAL DARKNESS: AN OBSCURE HISTORY OF MODERN ART AND MEDIA.
- Author
- ELCOTT, Noam M.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press, Chicago And London
- Publication year
- 2016
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 022632897X
- ISBN 13
- 9780226328973
- Edition
- 1st Edition
In exploring how artificial darkness shaped modern art, film, and media, Noam M. Elcott addresses seminal and obscure works alongside their sites of production—such as photography darkrooms, film studios, and laboratories—and their sites of reception, including theaters, cinemas, and exhibitions. He argues that artists, scientists, and entertainers like Étienne-Jules Marey, Richard Wagner, Georges Méliès, and Oskar Schlemmer revolutionized not only images but also everything surrounding them: the screen, the darkness, and the experience of bodies and space. At the heart of the book is “the black screen,” a technology of darkness that spawned today’s blue and green screens and has undergirded numerous advanced art and film practices to this day.
Turning familiar art and film narratives on their heads, Artificial Darkness is a revolutionary treatment of an elusive, yet fundamental, aspect of art and media history.
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