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Product Identifiers
PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-100892365900
ISBN-139780892365906
eBay Product ID (ePID)1914670
Product Key Features
Book TitleDevices of Wonder : from the World in a Box to Images on a Screen
Number of Pages400 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicOptics, Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
Publication Year2001
IllustratorYes
GenreTechnology & Engineering, Photography, Psychology
AuthorFrances Terpak, Barbara Stafford
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight51.1 Oz
Item Length10 in
Item Width7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2001-001270
Selected byPoggi, Isotta
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal707/.4794/93
SynopsisAn inquiry into emergent media's rich lineage, Devices of Wonder explores the artful machines humans have used to augment visual perception. The encyclopedic cabinet of curiosities serves as a model for this study of the archaic instruments lurking in state-of-the art technology. Featured in Devices of Wonder are android automata, lunar landscapes, perspective theaters, vues d'optique, microscopes, magnetic games, magic lanterns, camera obscuras, boxes by Joseph Cornell, Lucas Samaras's Mirrored Room, Suzanne Anker's Zoosemiotics, Mark Tilden's UniBug 3.1, panoramic works by Jeff Wall and Giovanni Lusieri, paintings by Jean-Baptiste Chardin and Joseph Wright of Derby, projections by Diana Thater and James Turrell, and a pop-up book by Kara Walker. Barbara Stafford's introduction weaves these fascinating artifacts into a provocative narrative analyzing the complex links between old and new media. Her wide-ranging investigation is complemented by thirty-one short essays in which Frances Terpak tracks the often surprising connections among individual items. Like the cabinet of curiosities, Devices of Wonder functions as an analogical instrument, reframing the beautiful "eye machines" that continue to mediate our encounters with the world. This book is published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Getty Museum from November 13, 2001, through February 6, 2002.
LC Classification NumberN72.T4S73 2001
