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Marks, L: Touch

By Marks, Laura U.

Marks, L: Touch Film, Art & Culture

Marks, L: Touch

By Marks, Laura U.

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In Touch, Laura U. Marks develops a critical approach more tactile than visual, an intensely physical and sensuous engagement with works of media art that enriches our understanding and experience of these works and of art itself. These critical, theoretical, and personal essays serve as a guide to developments in nonmainstream media art during the past ten years -- sexual representation debates, documentary ethics, the shift from analog to digital media, a new social obsession with smell. Marks takes up well-known artists like experimental filmmaker Ken Jacobs and mysterious animators the Brothers Quay, and introduces groundbreaking, lesser-known film, video, and digital artists. From this emerges a materialist theory -- an embodied, erotic relationship to art and to the world. Marks's approach leads to an appreciation of the works' mortal bodies: film's volatile emulsion, video's fragile magnetic base, crash-prone Net art; it also offers a productive alternative to the popular understanding of digital media as "virtual" and immaterial. Weaving a continuous fabric from philosophy, fiction, science, dreams, and intimate experience, Touch opens a new world of art media to readers.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
280
Release Date:
2002-11-01
Publication Date:
2002-11-01
Publisher:
University of Minnesota Press
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:
0816638896
ISBN13:
9780816638895
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
386 g
Height:
153 cm
Width:
232 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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