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Darkness has a history and a uniquely modern form. Distinct from night, shadows, and artificial light, “artificial darkness” has been overlooked—until now. In fact, controlled darkness was essential to the rise of photography and cinema, science and spectacle, and a century of advanced art and film. Artificial Darkness is the first book to historicize and theorize this phenomenon and map its applications across a range of media and art forms.
In exploring how artificial darkness shaped modern art, film, and media, Noam M. Elcott addresses seminal and obscure works alongside their sites of production—such as photography darkrooms, film studios, and laboratories—and their sites of reception, including theaters, cinemas, and exhibitions. He argues that artists, scientists, and entertainers like Étienne-Jules Marey, Richard Wagner, Georges Méliès, and Oskar Schlemmer revolutionized not only images but also everything surrounding them: the screen, the darkness, and the experience of bodies and space. At the heart of the book is “the black screen,” a technology of darkness that spawned today’s blue and green screens and has undergirded numerous advanced art and film practices to this day.
Turning familiar art and film narratives on their heads, Artificial Darkness is a revolutionary treatment of an elusive, yet fundamental, aspect of art and media history.
In exploring how artificial darkness shaped modern art, film, and media, Noam M. Elcott addresses seminal and obscure works alongside their sites of production—such as photography darkrooms, film studios, and laboratories—and their sites of reception, including theaters, cinemas, and exhibitions. He argues that artists, scientists, and entertainers like Étienne-Jules Marey, Richard Wagner, Georges Méliès, and Oskar Schlemmer revolutionized not only images but also everything surrounding them: the screen, the darkness, and the experience of bodies and space. At the heart of the book is “the black screen,” a technology of darkness that spawned today’s blue and green screens and has undergirded numerous advanced art and film practices to this day.
Turning familiar art and film narratives on their heads, Artificial Darkness is a revolutionary treatment of an elusive, yet fundamental, aspect of art and media history.
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Noam M. Elcott is associate professor of art history and archaeology at Columbia University and an editor of the journal Grey Room.
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- EditoreUniv of Chicago Pr
- Data di pubblicazione2016
- ISBN 10 022632897X
- ISBN 13 9780226328973
- RilegaturaCopertina rigida
- Numero di pagine306
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Artificial Darkness: An Obscure History of Modern Art and Media
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Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good+. First Edition. First edition, hardcover, has a mild skew to the binding, and a touch of shelf wear to the spine ends and cover corners. Otherwise, this is a solid, clean, Very Good+ copy in a like dust jacket, which has light bumps with mild creasing to the spine ends and corners, and faint rubbing with a touch of edge wear to the covers. The jacket is wrapped in Mylar. Codice articolo 202199
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Descrizione libro Condizione: Very Good. Book is in Used-VeryGood condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting. Codice articolo 022632897X-2-3
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Descrizione libro Hardcover. First Edition. 19 x 26cm 306pp near fine hardback in dust jacket with five different chapters including: 'The Black Art of Georges Melies' and 'Spaceless Play: Oskar Schlemmer's Dance Against Enlightenment' together with black and white reproductions. Near fine in near fine dustjacket. Codice articolo 21946
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