Americans, on average, spend between six and ten seconds looking at individual artworks in museums or galleries. This book dwells upon various media-photography, painting, sculpture, "living pictures," film, video, digital and performance art - and even light, time, and space, from both the present and past.
Americans, on average, spend between six and ten seconds looking at individual artworks in museums or galleries. In our culture of distraction, how might we sustain attention to those artworks-and to what effect? Slow Art dwells upon various media-photography, painting, sculpture, living pictures," film, video, digital and performance art-and even light, time, and space, from both the present and past. Taken together, these works shape a new and distinct aesthetic field. Looking carefully at figures including Diderot, Emma Hamilton, Oscar Wilde, Jeff Wall, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Andy Warhol, and Richard Serra, Arden Reed sketches a history of looking that establishes the origins of slow art, changes over time, and kinships among its expressions. Slow Art models ways to extend and enrich acts of looking.
"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
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.
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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.
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Americans, on average, spend between six and ten seconds looking at individual artworks in museums or galleries. In our culture of distraction, how might we sustain attention to those artworks--and to what effect? Slow Art dwells upon various media--photography, painting, sculpture, "living pictures," film, video, digital and performance art--and even light, time, and space, from both the present and past. Taken together, these works shape a new and distinct aesthetic field. Looking carefully at figures including Diderot, Emma Hamilton, Oscar Wilde, Jeff Wall, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Andy Warhol, and Richard Serra, Arden Reed sketches a history of looking that establishes the origins of slow art, changes over time, and kinships among its expressions. Slow Art models ways to extend and enrich acts of looking.
