Blur of the otherworldly : contemporary art, technology, and the paranormal / Mark Alice Durant and Jane D. Marsching ; contributions by Lynne Tillman and Marina Warner.

By:

Durant, Mark Alice

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Material type: Text

TextSeries: Issues in cultural theory book series ; 9Publication details: Baltimore, Md. : Center for Art and Visual Culture, c2006.Description: 189 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 23 cmISBN:

1890761060 (pbk.)
1890761087
9781890761066 (pbk.)

Other title:

Contemporary art, technology, and the paranormal

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DDC classification:

709.05 DUR

Available additional physical forms:

Issued also as number 9 in Issues in Cultural Theory (listed as ISSN 15211223, ISBN 1890761087)

Contents:

The shadow of doubt -- Adrift in the fluidium -- Insubstantial pageants -- Synthetic spectres -- Biographies.

Summary: The Blur of the Otherworldly presents twenty-eight contemporary artists whose work employs modern communication technologies (photography, film, video, radio, Internet, computers) to explore culturally inbred questions/superstitions concerning parallel worlds to our own...The artists of Blur of the Otherworldly explore the vagaries of the shifting line between what we know from science and technology and what scuttles around the darker edges of the imagination--Back cover.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	709.05 DUR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002100315713

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Over the past 20 years, the cultural and scholarly discourse around race has exploded to include the study of whiteness and white privilege, representing a radical shift in the way we think and talk about race in the United States. Since the advent of the modern civil rights movement, people of color have usually been responsible for leading the debate and discussion about race and racism, forced to evaluate the status of their race in relation to the prejudice they experience every day--while most white people, even the most liberal, are usually oblivious to the psychological and political weight of their own color. The study of whiteness asks all Americans--and especially white people--to take stock of the political, psychological, economic and cultural implication of white skin, white entitlement and white privilege. White: Whiteness and Race in Contemporary Art , the first exhibition and book devoted to the subject, gives voice to 11 artists who explicitly address the issue of whiteness: Max Becher and Andrea Robbin, Nayland Blake, Nancy Burson, Wendy Ewald and Mike Kelley, William Kentridge, Barbara Kruger, Nikki S. Lee, Cindy Sherman and Gary Simmons. David R. Roediger, Professor of History and American Studies at the University of Minnesota, contributes an essay on whiteness in the culture at large, and Patricia J. Williams, Professor of Law at Columbia University, writes about the social and legal implications of whiteness. Curator Maurice Berger, author of White Lies: Race and the Myths of Whiteness , provides an introductory text on whiteness and art as well as individual artist essays.

Includes checklist (p. 187-189)

Sticker on back cover has added ISBN-13 of 971890761080.

The shadow of doubt -- Adrift in the fluidium -- Insubstantial pageants -- Synthetic spectres -- Biographies.

Exhibition schedule: Center for Art & Visual Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, 21 October-11 December, 2005.

The Blur of the Otherworldly presents twenty-eight contemporary artists whose work employs modern communication technologies (photography, film, video, radio, Internet, computers) to explore culturally inbred questions/superstitions concerning parallel worlds to our own...The artists of Blur of the Otherworldly explore the vagaries of the shifting line between what we know from science and technology and what scuttles around the darker edges of the imagination--Back cover.

Issued also as number 9 in Issues in Cultural Theory (listed as ISSN 15211223, ISBN 1890761087)

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

Foreword (p. 8)
Acknowledgments (p. 12)
Preface (p. 16)
Invisible Man: An Introduction to Whiteness (p. 22)
Plates (p. 33)
White: A Catalog of Works (p. 44)
White Exotic (p. 47)
White Impurity (p. 49)
White Purity (p. 51)
White Complexity (p. 53)
White Complicity (p. 55)
White Skin (p. 57)
White Privilege (p. 59)
White Normal (p. 63)
White Type (p. 65)
White Trash (p. 67)
White Girl's Alphabet (p. 70)
How Old and New Whitenesses Keep Showing Up, But Not by Themselves (p. 90)
Checklist of the Exhibition (p. 104)
Bibliography (p. 108)
Mission Statement (p. 114)