Techniques of the observer
on vision and modernity in the nineteenth century
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Word Count
42,750 words, Guess
Page Count
171 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1854409M
- ISBN-100262031698
- OCLC Control Number21524918
- OCLC Control Numbertechniquesofobse0000crar_a7w1
- Library of Congress Control Number90006164
and 2 more
- LibraryThing36071
- Goodreads1769435
Classifications
- DDC701/.15
- LCCN7430.5 .C7 1990
Description
This text considers the problem of visuality not through the study of art works and images, but by analyzing the historical construction of the observer. The author insists that the problems of vision are inseparable from the operation of social power and examines how, beginning in the 1820s, the observer became the site of new discourses and practices that situated vision within the body as a physiological event. In this context, he examines a range of diverse work in philosophy, in the empirical sciences, and in the elements of an emerging mass visual culture.
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