MediaArtHistories

MediaArtHistories
By:Oliver Grau
Published on 2010-08-13 by Mit Press

Digital art has become a major contemporary art form, but it has yet to achieve acceptance from mainstream cultural institutions; it is rarely collected, and seldom included in the study of art history or other academic disciplines. In MediaArtHistories, leading scholars seek to change this. They take a wider view of media art, placing it against the backdrop of art history. Their essays demonstrate that today's media art cannot be understood by technological details alone; it cannot be understood without its history, and it must be understood in proximity to other disciplines--film, cultural and media studies, computer science, philosophy, and sciences dealing with images.Contributors trace the evolution of digital art, from thirteenth-century Islamic mechanical devices and eighteenth-century phantasmagoria, magic lanterns, and other multimedia illusions, to Marcel Duchamp's inventions and 1960s kinetic and op art. They reexamine and redefine key media art theory terms--machine, media, exhibition--and consider the blurred dividing lines between art products and consumer products and between art images and science images. Finally, MediaArtHistories offers an approach for an interdisciplinary, expanded image science, which needs the |trained eye| of art history.

This Book was ranked at 5 by Google Books for keyword bon usage grammaire francaise.

Book ID of MediaArtHistories's Books is MLJmSAAACAAJ, Book which was written byOliver Grauhave ETAG "GwHb3NvgHJk"

Book which was published by Mit Press since 2010-08-13 have ISBNs, ISBN 13 Code is 9780262514989 and ISBN 10 Code is 0262514982

Reading Mode in Text Status is false and Reading Mode in Image Status is false

Book which have "475 Pages" is Printed at BOOK under CategoryArt

This Book was rated by Raters and have average rate at ""

This eBook Maturity (Adult Book) status is NOT_MATURE

Book was written in en

eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is falseand in ePub is false

Book Preview