Ecstatic Worlds
Media, Utopias, Ecologies
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
31 October 2023
Summary
Postwar artists and architects have used photography, film, and other media to imagine and record the world as a wonder of collaborative entanglement—to translate the world for the world. In this book, Janine Marchessault examines a series of utopian media events that opened up and expanded the cosmos, creating ecstatic collective experiences for spectators and participants.
Marchessault shows that Edward Steichen’s 1955 “Family of Man” photography exhibition, for example, and Jacques…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262549745 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262549743 |
| Author: | Janine Marchessault |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 31 October 2023 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
| Series: | Leonardo |
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About The Author
Janine Marchessault
Janine Marchessault is Professor of Cinema and Media Studies in the Department of Cinema and Media Arts at York University in Toronto.
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