Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 0262531070 ISBN13: 9780262531078 Release Date: February 1992 Publisher: MIT Press Length: 184 Pages Weight: 0.68 lbs. Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.9" x 8.9" Age Range: 18 years and up Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher Jonathan Crary's Techniques of the Observer provides a dramatically new perspective on the visual culture of the nineteenth century, reassessing problems of both visual modernism and social modernity. This analysis of the historical formation of the observer is a compelling account of the prehistory of the society of the spectacle.In Techniques of the Observer Jonathan Crary provides a dramatically new perspective on the visual culture of the nineteenth century, reassessing problems of both visual modernism and social modernity.Inverting conventional approaches, Crary considers the problem of visuality not through the study of art works and images, but by analyzing the historical construction of the observer.