Optical Media: Berlin Lectures 1999

by Friedrich A. Kittler and Friedrich Kittler

Book Overview

This major new book provides a concise history of optical media from Renaissance linear perspective to late twentieth-century computer graphics. Kittler begins by looking at European painting since the Renaissance in order to discern the principles according to which modern optical perception was organized. He also discusses the development of various mechanical devices, such as the camera obscura and the laterna magica, which were closely connected...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745640915
• ISBN13: 9780745640914
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"