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Surface : matters of aesthetics, materiality, and media / Giuliana Bruno.
Main entry:

Bruno, Giuliana, author.

Title & Author:

Surface : matters of aesthetics, materiality, and media / Giuliana Bruno.

Publication:

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2014.

Description:

xiii, 277 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A matter of fabric: pleats of matter, folds of the soul -- Surface, texture, weave: the fashioned world of Wong Kar-wai -- Light spaces, screen surfaces: on the fabric of projection -- The surface tension of media: texture, canvas, screen -- Depth of surface, screen fabrics: stains, coatings, and "films" -- Sites of screening: cinema, museum, and the art of projection -- The architect's museum: Isaac Julien's double-screen projections -- Projections: the architectural imaginary in art -- Textures in Havana: memoirs of material culture -- On dust, blur, and the stains of time: a "virtual" letter to Sally Potter.
Summary:

What is the place of materiality - the expression or condition of a physical substance - in our visual age of rapidly changing materials and media? How is it fashioned in the arts or manifested in technology? This book deftly explores these questions, seeking to understand materiality in the contemporary world.

ISBN:

9780226434636
022643463X
9780226104942 (cloth ; alk. paper)
022610494X (cloth ; alk. paper)
(e-book)
9780226114835

Subject:

Arts Philosophy.
Aesthetics.
20.06 philosophy of art.
Philosophy.
Oberfläche
Materialität
Künste
Architektur
Ästhetik
Medienphilosophie

Holdings:

Location: Library main 286553
Call No.: BIB 226952
Status: Available

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