Vanishing Points : Articulations of Death, Fragmentation, and the Unexperienced Experience of Created Objects.

Vanishing Points : Articulations of Death, Fragmentation, and the Unexperienced Experience of Created Objects.

Deftly deploying Jacques Derrida's notion of the 'unexperienced experience' and building on Paul Virilio's ideas about the aesthetics of disappearance, Vanishing Points explores the aesthetic character of presence and absence as articulated in contemporary art, photography, film,...

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Main Author: Chuk, Natasha
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol : Intellect, 2015.
Subjects:
Arts > Philosophy.
Presence (Philosophy)
presence.
ART > General.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Power Resources / General
Arts > Philosophy
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword by Victor Vitanza; Introduction; Chapter 1: Ruptures: Negation in the Created Object; Chapter 2: Art and Unexperienced Experience; Chapter 3: Memorialization and Objects of the Dead; Chapter 4: The Apparatus and the Unfixed Vanishing Point; Chapter 5: Presence, Absence, and Play in the Hyperreal Spaces of Computation; Chapter 6: Traces of Absence in Photography: Dina Kantor and Alec Soth; Chapter 7: The Cost of Burying the Dead: Six Feet Under; Epilogue: Resisting Arrest: The Elusive Vanishing Point; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover.

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