Author: Crary, Jonathan
Title: Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture
Description: Cambridge, Massachusetts, The MIT Press, 2000. Second printing. Hardcover. Black cloth over boards; Color pictorial dj.; 397 pp.; Numerous bw figures. From the jacket: "..a major historical study of human attention and its volatile role in Western culture. It argues that the ways in which we intently look at or listen to anything result from critical changes in the nature of perception that can be traced back to the second half of the nineteenth century." Includes critical analyses of works by Manet, Seurat, and Cezanne. VG / VG- (Light wear to extremities of dj.) .

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