TY  - BOOK
AU  - Virilio,Paul
TI  - Art as far as the eye can see
SN  - 1845206118
AV  - N6497 .V5713 2007
U1  - 701.03 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Berg
KW  - Art, Modern
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Visual communication in art
KW  - Art and popular culture
N1  - 1; Expect the Unexpected --; 2; An Exorbitant Art --; 3; The Night of the Museums --; 4; Art as Far as the Eye Can See
N2  - "Art as Far as the Eye Can See puts art back where it matters - at the centre of politics." "Art used to be an engagement between artist and materials, But, in our new media world, art has changed; its very materials have changed and have become technologized." "This change reflects a broader social shift. Speed and politics - what Virilio defined as the key characteristics of the twentieth-century - have been transformed in the twenty-first century to speed and mass culture. And the defining characteristic of mass culture today is panic." "This induced panic relies on a new, all-seeing technology. And the first casualty of this is the human response. What we are losing is the very human 'art of seeing', one individual's engagement with another or with an event, be that political or artistic. What we are losing is our sense of the aesthetic." "Virilio argues that, in the twenty-first century, the new battleground will be art as light versus art as matter."--BOOK JACKET
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