On Slowness: Toward an Aesthetic of the Contemporary Contributor(s): Koepnick, Lutz (Author) |
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ISBN: 0231168322 ISBN-13: 9780231168328 Publisher: Columbia University Press
Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: October 2014 Click for more in this series: Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Aesthetics - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism - Photography | History |
Dewey: 701.17 |
LCCN: 2014003914 |
Series: Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts |
Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" L (1.25 lbs) 336 pages |
Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product, Recycled Paper, Table of Contents |
Review Citations: Library Journal 10/15/2014 pg. 97 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Speed is an obvious facet of contemporary society, whereas slowness has often been dismissed as conservative and antimodern. Challenging a long tradition of thought, Lutz Koepnick instead proposes we understand slowness as a strategy of the contemporary--a decidedly modern practice that gazes firmly at and into the present's velocity. As he engages with late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century art, photography, video, film, and literature, Koepnick explores slowness as a critical medium to intensify our temporal and spatial experiences. Slowness helps us register the multiple layers of time, history, and motion that constitute our present. It offers a timely (and untimely) mode of aesthetic perception and representation that emphasizes the openness of the future and undermines any conception of the present as a mere replay of the past. Discussing the photography and art of Janet Cardiff, Olafur Eliasson, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Michael Wesely; the films of Peter Weir and Tom Tykwer; the video installations of Douglas Gordon, Willie Doherty, and Bill Viola; and the fiction of Don DeLillo, Koepnick shows how slowness can carve out spaces within processes of acceleration that allow us to reflect on alternate temporalities and durations. |
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