Chronophobia On Time in the Art of The 1960s

Name: Chronophobia On Time in the Art of The 1960s
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ISBN: 9780262622035

ISBN-10: 0262622033

ISBN-13: 9780262622035

Edition: 2006

Authors: Pamela M. Lee

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In the 1960s art fell out of time; both artists and critics lost their temporal bearings in response to what E. M. Cioran called "not being entitled to time." This anxiety and uneasiness about time, which Pamela Lee calls "chronophobia," cut across movements, media, and genres, and was figured in works ranging from kinetic sculptures to Andy Warhol films. Despite its pervasiveness, the subject of time and 1960s art has gone largely unexamined in historical accounts of the period. Chronophobia is the first critical attempt to define this obsession and analyze it in relation to art and technology. Lee discusses the chronophobia of art relative to the emergence of the Information Age in…

Book details

List price: $50.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 2/17/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 8.06" wide x 9.00" long x 0.76" tall
Weight: 1.848
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Preface



Presentness Is Grace


Eros and Technics and Civilization



Presentness Is Grace



Allegories of Kinesis



Study for an End of the World



Bridget Riley's Eye/Body Problem



Endless Sixties



Ultramoderne: Or, How George Kubler Stole the Time in Sixties Art



Conclusion: The Bad Infinity/The Longue Duree


Notes


Index