Author: Crary, Jonathan
Title: Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century
Description: Cambridge, Massachusetts, MIT Press, 1990. Hardcover. Yellow DJ with purple lettering and illustration; yellow cloth over boards with purple lettering; 171 pp.; richly illustated. This text considers the problem of visuality not through the study of art works and images, but by analyzing the historical construction of the observer. The author insists that the problems of vision are inseparable from the operation of social power and examines how, beginning in the 1820s, the observer became the site of new discourses and practices that situated vision within the body as a physiological event. In this context, he examines a range of diverse work in philosophy, in the empirical sciences, and in the elements of an emerging mass visual culture. -- WorldCat. Good (DJ is price-clipped, toned/edgeworn/scuffed/smudged; boards have a small inkstain to front cover; ifc has a single word written in pen; remaining interior is in excellent condition, but does have a small amount of penciled marginalia.) .

Keywords: History, Visual Perception, Modern Art ; Visual Perception in Modern Art ; ;


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