The art of mechanical reproduction : technology and aesthetics from Duchamp to the digital /

The purpose of this book is to explore the potential of new technological situations not only for attacking established aesthetical systems, but also for instituting new ones. This study shows how new artistic values may emerge directly from changing technological conditions, and how these new aesth...

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Author / Contributor: Trodd, Tamara Jane (Author)
Imprint: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Format: Book
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. The art of mechanical reproduction
  • Mnemotechnics. Oil-transfer
  • Investing in drawing
  • Apparatus
  • Camera-seeing
  • Seeing machines. The panorama device
  • Collage
  • Large Glass/shop window
  • Ball-joint, Rotoreliefs, Guitar
  • Camera vision. Painting shadows
  • Automatic drawing
  • Screening the body
  • Screen memories
  • Xeroxing the medium. Working drawings
  • Mapping "systems"
  • Photo-plus-text
  • The dialectical image
  • Painting at a standstill. Don't look now
  • The stilled and moving image
  • Pathos formulae
  • Farewell to the machine age? The film machine
  • Mechanical ballets
  • Dean's telescope
  • Film machines after film.