Books
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Info Aesthetics
A semi-open source book/Web site in progress. Project started 8/00, last update 10/27/01.
Summary (updated 10/28/01)
Info-Aesthetics scans contemporary culture to detect emerging aesthetics and computer-based cultural forms specific to information society. Its method is a systematic comparison of our own period with the beginning of the 20th century when modernist artists created new aesthetics, new forms, new representational techniques, and new symbols of industrial society… -
Tekstura: Russian Essays on Visual Culture
Editor; together with Alla Efimova. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
From the publisher:
"Taking its title from a Russian word that can refer to the 'texture' of life, painting, or writing, this anthology assembles thirteen key essays in art history and cultural theory by Russian-language writers. The essays erase boundaries between high and low, official and dissident, avant-garde and socialist realism, art and everyday life. Everything visual is deemed worthy of …