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OverviewInvestigating the concepts and material realities of energy coursing through the arts- a foundational text.This book investigates energies-in the plural, the energies embedded and embodied in everything under the sun- as they are expressed in the arts. With contributions from scholars and critics from the visual arts, art history, anthropology, music, literature, and the history of science, it offers the first multidisciplinary investigation of the concepts and material realities of energy coursing through the arts. Just as Douglas Kahn's earlier books helped introduce sound as a category for study in the arts, this new volume will be a foundational volume for future explorers in a largely uncharted domain. The modern concept of energy is only two hundred years old-an abstraction grounded in extraction-but this book takes a more expansive view. It opens with a clap- the sonic energies in a ceremony of the indigenous Goolarabooloo people of Australia. Other chapters explore the energies of photography; responses of artists in the early twentieth century-including Marcel Duchamp-to scientific discoveries in electricity and electromagnetism; the aestheticization of entropy in works by Hans Haacke and Robert Smithson; free-jazz musician Milford Graves's cross-cultural engagement with music, science, and spiritualism; energy field performance; and the self-generating energy of rumor and gossip as artwork. Contributors include such leading scholars as Linda Dalrymple Henderson, John Tresch, and Caroline A. Jones. Practicing artists and students of art history will find Energies in the Arts an essential work. Contributors Susan Ballard, Jennifer Biddle, Marcus Boon, Joan Brassil, Steven Connor, Milford Graves, Daniel Hackbarth, Linda Dalrymple Henderson, Caroline A. Jones, Douglas Kahn, David Mather, Stephen Muecke, James Nisbet, Daniela Silvestrin, Michael Taussig, John Tresch, Melissa Warak Full Product DetailsAuthor: Douglas Kahn (Professor of Media and Innovation, University of New South Wales, Sydney)Publisher: MIT Press Ltd Imprint: MIT Press Dimensions: Width: 17.10cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 24.10cm ISBN: 9780262039383ISBN 10: 0262039389 Pages: 480 Publication Date: 14 May 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Adult education , General/trade , Professional & Vocational , Further / Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsKahn's achievement lies in not only questioning the concept and core definition of energy by taking a more expansive view on it, but also view[ing] it from different historical angles that provide an intriguing perspective on the emergence of what eventually became schools of thought and art. —Scene Point Blank Kahn's achievement lies in not only questioning the concept and core definition of energy by taking a more expansive view on it, but also view[ing] it from different historical angles that provide an intriguing perspective on the emergence of what eventually became schools of thought and art. —THE WIRE Kahn's achievement lies in not only questioning the concept and core definition of energy by taking a more expansive view on it, but also view[ing] it from different historical angles that provide an intriguing perspective on the emergence of what eventually became schools of thought and art. -Scene Point Blank Kahn's achievement lies in not only questioning the concept and core definition of energy by taking a more expansive view on it, but also view[ing] it from different historical angles that provide an intriguing perspective on the emergence of what eventually became schools of thought and art. -THE WIRE Kahn's achievement lies in not only questioning the concept and core definition of energy by taking a more expansive view on it, but also view[ing] it from different historical angles that provide an intriguing perspective on the emergence of what eventually became schools of thought and art. -Scene Point Blank Author InformationDouglas Kahn is Professor at the National Institute for Experimental Arts at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. He is the author of Noise Water Meat- A History of Sound in the Arts (MIT Press) and Earth Sound Earth Signal- Energies and Earth Magnitude in the Arts and coeditor of Wireless Imagination- Sound, Radio, and the Avant-Garde (MIT Press). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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