On Slowness
€ 55,90
Informação do Produto
| ISBN | 9780231168328 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Lutz Koepnick |
| Editora | Columbia University Press |
| Formato | Capa dura |
| Número de páginas | 336 |
| Peso (kg) | 0,654 |
| Data de Publicação | 07/10/2014 |
| Preço (iva excl.) | € 52,74 |
| Imposto | € 3,16 |
| Preço (iva inc.) | € 55,90 |
| Disponibilidade | 1 unidade em armazém externo |
Descrição do Produto
Speed is an obvious facet of contemporary society, whereas slowness has often been dismissed as conservative and antimodern. Challenging a long tradition of thought, Lutz Koepnick instead proposes we understand slowness as a strategy of the contemporary-a decidedly modern practice that gazes firmly at and into the present's velocity. As he engages with late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century art, photography, video, film, and literature, Koepnick explores slowness as a critical medium to intensify our temporal and spatial experiences. Slowness helps us register the multiple layers of time, history, and motion that constitute our present. It offers a timely (and untimely) mode of aesthetic perception and representation that emphasizes the openness of the future and undermines any conception of the present as a mere replay of the past. Discussing the photography and art of Janet Cardiff, Olafur Eliasson, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Michael Wesely; the films of Peter Weir and Tom Tykwer; the video installations of Douglas Gordon, Willie Doherty, and Bill Viola; and the fiction of Don DeLillo, Koepnick shows how slowness can carve out spaces within processes of acceleration that allow us to reflect on alternate temporalities and durations.