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- catalog abstract ""Suspensions of Perception is a major historical study of human attention and its volatile role in modern Western culture. It argues that the ways in which we intently look at or listen to anything result from crucial changes in the nature of perception that can be traced back to the second half of the nineteenth century." "Crary approaches these issues through analyses of works by three key modernist painters - Manet, Seurat, and Cezanne - who each engaged in a singular confrontation with the disruptions, vacancies, and rifts within a perceptual field. Each in his own way discovered that sustained attentiveness, rather than fixing or securing the world, led to perceptual disintegration and loss of presence, and each used this discovery as the basis for a reinvention of representation practices." "This book decisively relocates the problem of aesthetic contemplation within a broader collective encounter with the unstable nature of perception - in psychology, philosophy, neurology, early cinema, and photography. In doing so, it provides a historical framework for understanding the current social crisis of attention amid the accelerating metamorphoses of our contemporary technological culture."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Attention, spectacle, and modern culture".
- catalog contributor b11330824.
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description ""Suspensions of Perception is a major historical study of human attention and its volatile role in modern Western culture. It argues that the ways in which we intently look at or listen to anything result from crucial changes in the nature of perception that can be traced back to the second half of the nineteenth century." "Crary approaches these issues through analyses of works by three key modernist painters - Manet, Seurat, and Cezanne - who each engaged in a singular confrontation with the disruptions, vacancies, and rifts within a perceptual field. Each in his own way discovered that sustained attentiveness, rather than fixing or securing the world, led to perceptual disintegration and loss of presence, and each used this discovery as the basis for a reinvention of representation practices." "This book decisively relocates the problem of aesthetic contemplation within a broader collective encounter with the unstable nature of perception - in psychology, philosophy, neurology, early cinema, and photography. In doing so, it provides a historical framework for understanding the current social crisis of attention amid the accelerating metamorphoses of our contemporary technological culture."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-377) and index.".
- catalog description "Modernity and the problem of attention. -- 1879: Unbinding vision. -- 1888: Illuminations of disenchantment. -- 1900: Reinventing synthesis. -- 1907: Spellbound in Rome.".
- catalog extent "x, 397 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0262032651 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press,".
- catalog subject "153.7 21".
- catalog subject "2000 B-370".
- catalog subject "Attention.".
- catalog subject "BF 321 C893s 1999".
- catalog subject "BF378.S45 C73 1999".
- catalog subject "Choice Behavior.".
- catalog subject "Memory.".
- catalog subject "Perception.".
- catalog subject "Selectivity (Psychology)".
- catalog subject "Subjectivity.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Modernity and the problem of attention. -- 1879: Unbinding vision. -- 1888: Illuminations of disenchantment. -- 1900: Reinventing synthesis. -- 1907: Spellbound in Rome.".
- catalog title "Attention, spectacle, and modern culture".
- catalog title "Suspensions of perception : attention, spectacle, and modern culture / Jonathan Crary.".
- catalog type "text".