Techniques of the Observer

副标题: On Vision and Modernity in the 19th Century

ISBN: 9780262531078

出版社: The MIT Press

出版年: 1992-2-25

页数: 183

定价: USD 24.95

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

In Techniques of the Observer Jonathan Crary provides a dramatically new perspective on the visual culture of the nineteenth century, reassessing problems of both visual modernism and social modernity.Inverting conventional approaches, Crary considers the problem of visuality not through the study of art works and images, but by analyzing the historical construction of the observer. He insists that the problems of vision are inseparable from the operation of social power and examines how, beginning in the 1820s, the observer became the site of new discourses and practices that situated vision within the body as a physiological event. Alongside the sudden appearance of physiological optics, Crary points out, theories and models of "subjective vision" were developed that gave the observer a new autonomy and productivity while simultaneously allowing new forms of control and standardization of vision.Crary examines a range of diverse work in philosophy, in the empirical sciences, and in the elements of an emerging mass visual culture. He discusses at length the significance of optical apparatuses such as the stereoscope and of precinematic devices, detailing how they were the product of new physiological knowledge. He also shows how these forms of mass culture, usually labeled as "realist," were in fact based on abstract models of vision, and he suggests that mimetic or perspectival notions of vision and representation were initially abandoned in the first half of the nineteenth century within a variety of powerful institutions and discourses, well before the modernist painting of the 1870s and 1880s.Jonathan Crary is Assistant Professor of Art History at Barnard College and Columbia University. He is a founding editor of Zone and Zone Books.

作者简介

強納森．柯拉瑞(Jonathan Crary)

哥倫比亞大學藝術史教授，「界域叢書」（Zone Books）的創書主編，著名期刊《十月》（October）的編輯顧問，也是《知覺的懸宕》（Suspensions of Perception, 1999）的作者、《身體化》（ Incorporations, 1992）的共同編者。曾獲古根漢（Guggenheim）、蓋提（Getty）、邁隆（Mellon）及國家藝術基金會（National Endowment for the Arts）等研究獎助，也是普林斯頓高等研究院（ Institute for Advanced Study）的院士。

譯者簡介

蔡佩君

政治大學政治學系畢業，清華大學文學研究所碩士。譯作有《前衛藝術理論》、《共和危機》、《知識騙局》、《多瑙河注》、《劍橋流行與搖滾音樂讀本》、《利維坦與空氣泵浦》等。

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