Title & Author:

Energies in the arts / edited by Douglas Kahn.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2019]
©2019

Description:

vi, 473 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- 1. The world began with a sound -- 2. Imaginary energies : the arts of perpetuity -- 3. Photography as photoenergy -- 4. Illuminating energy and art in the early twentieth century and beyond : from marcel duchamp to Keith sonnier -- 5. Giacomo Ball's sound-images -- 6. Leroi-gourhan's hall of gestures -- 7. Energies in the early works of takis -- 8. Entropies -- 9. Joan Brassil : "The energy of the life game" -- 10. Book of Tono-Rhyth mology -- 11. Milpirri : Activating the at-risk -- 12. On the potential for change : the play of forces in the work of Mario De Vega -- 13. Energy field performance : Peter Blamey -- 14. A place where the unknown past and the emergent future meet in a vibrating soundless hum : thought of energy and the contmporary -- 15. Mooning Texas -- 16. List of contributors -- Index.

Summary:

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. 0The 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.

ISBN:

9780262039383 hardcover alkaline paper
0262039389 hardcover alkaline paper

Subject:

Arts Philosophy.
Force and energy Philosophy.
Force et énergie Philosophie.
Light in art.

Added entries:

Kahn, Douglas, 1951- editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 305191
Call No.: BIB 250993
Status: Available