Investigating the concepts and material realities of energy coursing through the arts: a foundational text.
Jones, Douglas Kahn, David Mather, Stephen Muecke, James Nisbet, Daniela Silvestrin, Michael Taussig, John Tresch, Melissa Warak.
Contributors Susan Ballard, Jennifer Biddle, Marcus Boon, Joan Brassil, Steven Connor, Milford Graves, Daniel Hackbarth, Linda Dalrymple Henderson, Caroline A.
Practicing artists and students of art history will find Energies in the Arts an essential work.
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Contributors include such leading scholars as Linda Dalrymple Henderson, John Tresch, and Caroline A.
Other chapters explore the Energies of photography; responses of artists in the early twentieth century--including Marcel Duchamp--to scientific discoveries in electricity and electromagnetism; the aestheticization of entropy in works by Hans Haacke and Robert Smithson; free-jazz musician Milford Graves\'s cross-cultural engagement with music, science, and spiritualism; energy field performance; and the self-generating energy of rumor and gossip as artwork.
It opens with a clap: the sonic Energies in a ceremony of the indigenous Goolarabooloo people of Australia.
The modern concept of energy is only two hundred years old--an abstraction grounded in extraction--but this book takes a more expansive view.
Just as Douglas Kahn\'s earlier books helped introduce sound as a category for study in the arts, this new volume will be a foundational volume for future explorers in a largely uncharted domain.
With contributions from scholars and critics from the visual arts, art history, anthropology, music, literature, and the history of science, it offers the first multidisciplinary investigation of the concepts and material realities of energy coursing through the arts.
This book investigates energies--in the plural, the Energies embedded and embodied in everything under the sun-- as they are expressed in the arts.
Investigating the concepts and material realities of energy coursing through the arts: a foundational text
