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Title: The Optical Unconscious by Rosalind Krauss ISBN: 0-262-61105-8 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 25 July, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Can you see the watcher?
Comment: Kraus's "The Optical Unconcious" is a good companion, as it were, to Martin Jay's "Downcast Eyes." Both discuss the dilema of visuality in Modernist thought and then -whoa - bring out post-modernism just by speaking about the eye and seeing. While Jay gets technical with his notion of "occular centrism," Kraus lets us feel what it means to watch or be watched. Her approach to the male gaze, the fashionable term for good old fashioned voyerism, is that it is natural. Sure, it one can analyse it as a by product of the failure of the industrial revolution to liberate people from work and to bring about more leisure time for the masses (by implication create greater equality - fewer people watching each other in the negative sense). Krauss is right when she insists that looking is a normal, natural occurance in contemporary society. She is also on target about the obsession Americans have with time, and that sight is the quickest method of human understanding. A great book!
Rating: 4
Summary: unconfortable platform to contemporary culture
Comment: Through a carefully structured narrative agenda, Rosalind Krauss is able to foreshadow, a compromised and descriptive text, about the contemporary use of the word "understand", specially if applied to the modernist arts and its criticism. Greatly to the advantage of us, lesser audiences, every thesis is exhibited with both academic rigor and narrative richness, permiting thus, the emergence of rich and useful images, powerful to illustrate, vinculate, even sometimes explain, many of the contemporary works of other theorists, that come to the text sometimes to expose, sometimes to poison, the general arguments around modernist production and the understanding of arts. Great for abbandoning oneself into insomnia, it is common to find provocative images, greatly to the advantage of self-involment in the arguments, and to the further underdstanding of the actual state of simbolical exchange, in the present tense. The involment in contemporary thought and debate, and the well constructed historical narrative, provides the text with an surprisingly effective mirror to look at our culture at an compromisingly close viewpoint, in wich many constitutive arguments of contemporary culture today are reflected just as the many of the historical lies that are still at use now at the "explaining" of the artistic pulsions, and its assimilation by the artistic institutions.
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Title: The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths by Rosalind Krauss ISBN: 0262610469 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 09 July, 1986 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the 19th Century (October Books) by Jonathan Crary ISBN: 0262531070 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 25 February, 1992 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture (October Books) by Jonathan Crary ISBN: 0262531992 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Formless: A User's Guide by Yve-Alain Bois, Rosalind Krauss ISBN: 0942299442 Publisher: Zone Books Pub. Date: 28 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Bachelors (October Books) by Rosalind Krauss ISBN: 0262611651 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 28 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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