Slow Art: The Experience of Looking, Sacred Images to James Turrell

ISBN-13: 9780520285507 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 352 str.

Arden Reed

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Americans, on average, spend between six and ten seconds with individual artworks in museums or galleries--hardly time enough. But how, in our culture of distraction, might we extend attention? Slow Art models sustained ways of looking, through encounters with various media both present and past--including photography, painting, sculpture, "living pictures," film, video, digital and performance art--even light and space. Works by Diderot, Emma Hamilton, Oscar Wilde, Jeff Wall, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Andy Warhol, and Richard Serra, among others, shape a new and distinct aesthetic field. But rather than a collection of objects, slow art is participatory--it directly engages beholders to bring artworks to life. Against current orthodoxy, Arden Reed argues that, for contemporary viewers, the contemplation of slow art is akin to religious practices during the ages of faith.

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"I don't know if I've ever read a book about art as fresh, smart, lucid, illuminating, thought-provoking, wide-ranging, and altogether delightful as this one. Or more important. There's a good chanceSlow Artwill change the way you look and think, and only for the better."-Kurt Andersen, author ofFantasyland, host of public radio'sStudio 360"If you love art (or wonder why you don't), this book is a must read. You will learn how to see art but you will also discover a new way to live in this speed-obsessed 21st century."-Phil Terry, Founder, Slow Art Day, co-authorCustomers IncludedHow to Transform Products, Companies, and the World - With a Single Step

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Arden Reed is Arthur and Fanny Dole Professor of English at Pomona College. He writes on the visual arts and literature, and his publications include Manet, Flaubert, and the Emergence of Modernism and Romantic Weather: The Climates of Coleridge and Baudelaire.