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International Texts in Critical Media Aesthetics Ser.: Off-Modern by Svetlana Boym (2017, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherBloomsbury Academic & Professional
ISBN-101501328972
ISBN-139781501328978
eBay Product ID (ePID)229015769
Product Key Features
Number of Pages208 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameOff-Modern
Publication Year2017
SubjectMedia Studies, History / Contemporary (1945-), Criticism & Theory, Techniques / Digital (See Also Computers / Digital Media / Photography), History & Surveys / Modern, Aesthetics
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaArt, Philosophy, Social Science, Photography
AuthorSvetlana Boym
SeriesInternational Texts in Critical Media Aesthetics Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.4 in
Item Weight10.6 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2016-052088
ReviewsThis delightful manifesto and memoir vividly captures Svetlana Boym's imaginative, passionate critical voice and creative endeavors. The Off-Modern dares to go off the beaten path to explore the side alleys of the modern project, celebrating the eccentric cultural productions that live off-center., This book will not fail to surprise readers of Svetlana Boym's previous work, followers of her passionate scepticism, her art of shadow play, her explorative character, and subtle philosophical drifts. Boym's posthumous oeuvre ranges meditatively over cultural history and the artistic genealogy of modernity; rich in concepts, gentle to the reader, yet this time with a more choreographic form of writing, oneiric phrasing, and a dream-like assemblage. Also, The Off-Modern is more direct, with a manifesto tone, and engages more deeply with analyses of artworks and art history.
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition23
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal700.905
Table Of ContentTable of Contents List of Illustrations Preface David Damrosch (Harvard University, USA) I: Perspectives 1: History Out-of-Sync 2: Cultural Exaptation 3: Human Error 4: Nostalgic Technologies 5: Digital Resident Aliens 6. Edgy Geography 7. Archive of Pentimenti 8. Perspectivism 9: Prospective Nostalgia 10: Ruinophilia 11: Off-Modern Urbanism 12: Embarrassing Monumentality 13: Tact and Touch 14: Diasporic Intimacy 15: Immigrant Arts 16: Alternative Solidarities, Feminine Friendships 17: Estrangement for the World 18: Defamiliarized Human 19: Squiggles, Spirals and Serpentine Dances 20: The Off-Modern Museum 21: Hypertextual Design and Essayistic Drift 22: On Off II: Practices 23: Unforeseen Homecoming 24: Phantasmagorias of History 25: Turning the page on the Avant-Garde 26: Hybrid Utopias 27: Global Transits and Portable Homes 28: Postindustrial Art Nouveau: Tirana Arabesque 2010 29: Multitasking with Clouds 30: Airport Ruins 31: Hydrant Immigrants 32: Not Working 33: Black Mirrors Notes Bibliography
SynopsisSvetlana Boym writes a new genealogy of modernity, moving beyond older debates between modernism and postmodernism to focus on the intersection of art, architecture, technology, and philosophy in the early twenty-first century. Drawing on theories of Georg Simmel, Henri Bergson, Aby Warburg, and Jacques Derrida, Boym presents the off-modern as an eccentric, self-questioning, anti-authoritarian perspective with roots in the Russian avant-garde, now developed in surprising ways by contemporary artists, architects, and curators around the world. She illustrates the off-modern in discussions of (and with) figures as diverse as architect Rem Koolhaas, Albanian artist-turned-mayor Edi Rama, an art collective in Delhi, and the creator of the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles. Both a manifesto and a memoir, The Off-Modern often returns to themes of travel and immigration, exploring issues of diasporic intimacy and productive estrangement amid nostalgic landscapes of urban ruins.
LC Classification NumberBH301.M54B66 2017
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