The art of interruption : realism, photography and the everyday / John Roberts.
By: Roberts, John.
Material type: BookSeries: Critical image.Publisher: Manchester, UK ; New York : New York : Manchester University Press, Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 1998Description: xii, 241 p : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 0719035600 (m) (hbk); 0719035619 (v) (pbk).Subject(s): Photography -- Philosophy | Photography -- History -- 20th century | Realism in artDDC classification: 770.1 ROBItem type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 770.1 ROB (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00054764 |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A history of theories of photographic practices, this text sets out to do a number of things: to recover the critical place of the photographic archive within the avant-garde; to defend the philosophic claims of realism in assessing photography this century; and to present a dialogic defence of the naturalistic or documnetary image.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- List of figures and plates (p. vi)
- Acknowledgements (p. xii)
- Introduction: realism, contradiction and interpretation (p. 2)
- 1 Photography, the everyday and the Russian Revolution (p. 14)
- 2 Technique, technology and the everyday: German photographic culture in the 1920s and 1930s (p. 40)
- 3 The making of documentary: documentary after factography (p. 58)
- 4 The state, the everyday and the archive (p. 72)
- 5 Surrealism, photography and the everyday (p. 98)
- 6 Inside Modernism: American photography and post-war culture (p. 114)
- 7 John Berger and Jean Mohr: the return to communality (p. 128)
- 8 The rise of theory and the critique of realism: photography in Britain in the 1980s (p. 144)
- 9 Disfiguring the ideal: the body, photography and the everyday (p. 172)
- 10 Jeff Wall: the social pathology of everyday life (p. 184)
- 11 Jo Spence: photography, empowerment and the everyday (p. 199)
- 12 Digital imagery and the critique of realism (p. 216)
- Index (p. 229)