Energies in the Arts
$90.96
- Hardcover
480 pages
- Release Date
14 May 2019
Summary
Investigating the concepts and material realities of energy coursing through the arts- a foundational text.This book investigates energies-in the plural, the energies embedded and embodied in everything under the sun- as they are expressed in the arts. With contributions from scholars and critics from the visual arts, art history, anthropology, music, literature, and the history of science, it offers the first multidisciplinary investigation of the concepts and material realities of energy co…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262039383 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262039389 |
| Author: | Douglas Kahn |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Release Date: | 14 May 2019 |
| Weight: | 1.24kg |
| Dimensions: | 241mm x 171mm x 30mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
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Kahn’s achievement lies in not only questioning the concept and core definition of energy by taking a more expansive view on it, but also view[ing] it from different historical angles that provide an intriguing perspective on the emergence of what eventually became schools of thought and art.
—Scene Point BlankKahn’s achievement lies in not only questioning the concept and core definition of energy by taking a more expansive view on it, but also view[ing] it from different historical angles that provide an intriguing perspective on the emergence of what eventually became schools of thought and art.
—THE WIREAbout The Author
Douglas Kahn
Douglas Kahn is Professor at the National Institute for Experimental Arts at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. He is the author of Noise Water Meat- A History of Sound in the Arts (MIT Press) and Earth Sound Earth Signal- Energies and Earth Magnitude in the Arts and coeditor of Wireless Imagination- Sound, Radio, and the Avant-Garde (MIT Press).
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