Dissolve Into Comprehension: Writings and Interviews, 1964-2004

by Jack Burnham

Book Overview

Influential writings by the legendary art critic and theorist Jack Burnham--a pioneer in new media systems aesthetics and an early advocate of conceptualism.

Jack Burnham is one of the few critics and theorists alive today who can claim to have radically altered the way we think about works of art. Burnham's use of the term "system" (borrowed from theoretical biology) in his 1968 essay "System Aesthetics" announced the relational character...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262029278
• ISBN13: 9780262029278
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 2.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.0" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher