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Devices of Wonder: From the World in a Box to Images on a Screen (Getty Publications –) - Softcover

Stafford, Barbara Maria; Terpak, Frances; Poggi, Isotta; J. Paul Getty Museum

 
9780892365906: Devices of Wonder: From the World in a Box to Images on a Screen (Getty Publications –)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0892365900 ISBN 13: 9780892365906
Verlag: Getty Research Institute,U.S., 2001

Inhaltsangabe

An inquiry into emergent media's rich lineage, Devices of Wonder explores the artful machines humans have used to augment visual perception.
The encyclopedic cabinet of curiosities serves as a model for this study of the archaic instruments lurking in state-of-the art technology. Featured in Devices of Wonder are android automata, lunar landscapes, perspective theaters, vues d'optique, microscopes, magnetic games, magic lanterns, camera obscuras, boxes by Joseph Cornell, Lucas Samaras's Mirrored Room, Suzanne Anker's Zoosemiotics, Mark Tilden's UniBug 3.1, panoramic works by Jeff Wall and Giovanni Lusieri, paintings by Jean-Baptiste Chardin and Joseph Wright of Derby, projections by Diana Thater and James Turrell, and a pop-up book by Kara Walker.
Barbara Stafford's introduction weaves these fascinating artifacts into a provocative narrative analyzing the complex links between old and new media. Her wide-ranging investigation is complemented by thirty-one short essays in which Frances Terpak tracks the often surprising connections among individual items. Like the cabinet of curiosities, Devices of Wonder functions as an analogical instrument, reframing the beautiful "eye machines" that continue to mediate our encounters with the world.
This book is published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Getty Museum from November 13, 2001, through February 6, 2002.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Barbara Maria Stafford is William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. Frances Terpak is curator of photographs at the Getty Research Institute. Isotta Poggi is research associate at the Getty Research Institute.

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Verlag
Getty Research Institute,U.S.
Erscheinungsdatum
2001
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0892365900
ISBN 13 
9780892365906
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
119
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