On Slowness: Toward an Aesthetic of the Contemporary

by Lutz Koepnick

Book Overview

Speed is an obvious facet of contemporary society, whereas slowness has often been dismissed as conservative and antimodern. Challenging a long tradition of thought, Lutz Koepnick instead proposes we understand slowness as a strategy of the contemporary--a decidedly modern practice that gazes firmly at and into the present's velocity.

As he engages with late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century art, photography, video, film, and literature,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231168322
• ISBN13: 9780231168328
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher