دانلود کتاب The future of post-human visual arts : towards a new theory of techniques and spirits. Volume I

Are the visual arts really so central in our time that, as Doug Adams once said, ""people under 60, raised on television...remember by what they see....[F]ilm and television are really the language of today""? (TE 2013) This central view on the visual arts can be contrasted with an opposing view by Camille Paglia, who wrote that ""the visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism. Drunk with self-love, criticism has hugely overestimated the centrality of language to western culture. It has fai. Read more... Abstract: Are the visual arts really so central in our time that, as Doug Adams once said, ""people under 60, raised on television...remember by what they see....[F]ilm and television are really the language of today""? (TE 2013) This central view on the visual arts can be contrasted with an opposing view by Camille Paglia, who wrote that ""the visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism. Drunk with self-love, criticism has hugely overestimated the centrality of language to western culture. It has fai