Framing attention : windows on modern German culture /
"In Framing Attention, Lutz Koepnick explores different concepts of the window - in both a literal and a figurative sense - as manifested in various visual forms in German culture from the nineteenth century to the present. He offers a new interpretation of how evolving ways of seeing have char...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2007
Baltimore, MD : 2007 Baltimore : 2007 |
| Series: | Parallax (Baltimore, Md.)
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| Summary: | "In Framing Attention, Lutz Koepnick explores different concepts of the window - in both a literal and a figurative sense - as manifested in various visual forms in German culture from the nineteenth century to the present. He offers a new interpretation of how evolving ways of seeing have characterized and defined modernity." "Koepnick examines the role and representation of window frames in modern German culture - in painting, photography, architecture, and literature, on the stage and in public transportation systems, on the film screen and on television. He presents such frames as interfaces that negotiate competing visions of past and present, body and community, attentiveness and distraction. From Adolph Menzel's window paintings of the 1840s to Nam June Paik's experiments with television screens, from Richard Wagner's retooling of the proscenium stage to Adolf Hitler's use of a window as a means of political self-promotion, Framing Attention offers a theoretically incisive understanding of how windows shape and reframe the way we see the world around us and our place within it."--BOOK JACKET |
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| Item Description: | This WorldCat-derived record is shareable under Open Data Commons ODC-BY, with attribution to OCLC |
| Physical Description: | viii, 299 p. : ill. ; 24 cm viii, 299 p. : ill., ports., plans, facsims. ; 24 cm viii, 299 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-288) and index Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-288) and index Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0801884896 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0801884896 9780801884894 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780801884894 |