Research Catalog

Title

Slow art : the experience of looking, sacred images to James Turrell / Arden Reed.

Author

Reed, Arden, 1947-

Publication

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]

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Details

Description

xvi, 325 pages : illustrations; 27 cm

Summary

"More Americans visit art museums annually than attend all major-league sporting events. Yet many come away dissatisfied, because art rarely yields itself to the few seconds most viewers spend on individual works. In a culture of distraction, Slow Art models ways to extend and enrich acts of looking. This study defines a new aesthetic field crossing centuries and mediums, including video, photography, land and installation art, painting, performance, sculpture, and fiction. Also tableaux vivants ("living pictures"), live restagings of artworks. Often dismissed as marginal, the practice is fundamental--poised between motion and stasis, life and art--witness its current flourishing. This history of looking includes Diderot, Emma Hamilton, Oscar Wilde, Jeff Wall, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Andy Warhol, Richard Serra. But rather than a set of objects, slow art names a dynamic relationship that transpires between objects and observers. Slow art enacts tacit contracts between works that have designs on us and beholders who invest in them. Slow art emerged in the 18th century, when cultural acceleration created the need to cushion the pace of social life. Simultaneously, however, secularization closed off traditional means to do so. Slow art offers secular viewers pleasures and consolations that engaging sacred images did in ages of faith. Slow art offers objects their due attention, and offers observers meaningful encounters. Such experiences are available to everybody by practicing the pleasures of lingering. Because such opportunities are not given, Slow Art proposes strategies for artists, artworks, and beholders"--Provided by publisher.

Subject

• Turrell, James
• Art appreciation
• Art and society
• Tableaux (Art)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-303) and index.

Contents

Introduction : marking time -- What is slow art? (when images swell into events and events condense into images) -- Living(?) pictures -- Before slow art -- Slow art emerges in modernity I : secularization from Diderot to Wilde -- Slow art emerges in modernity II : the great age of speed -- Slow fiction, film, video, performance, 1960 to 2010 -- Slow photography, painting, installation art, sculpture, 1960 to 2010 -- Angel and devil of slow art.

Call Number

JQF 18-79

ISBN

• 9780520285507
• 0520285506

LCCN

• 2016040760
• 40027317021

OCLC

958876511

Author

Reed, Arden, 1947- author.

Title

Slow art : the experience of looking, sacred images to James Turrell / Arden Reed.

Publisher

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-303) and index.

Other Standard Identifier

40027317021

Research Call Number

JQF 18-79