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Author Kitnick, Alex, 1981- author.

Title Distant early warning : Marshall McLuhan and the transformation of the avant-garde / Alex Kitnick
Published Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2021]
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Description 1 online resource (208 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction -- The age of mechanical production -- What it means to be avant-garde -- Lights on -- Electronic opera -- Massage, ca. 1966 -- Information environment -- Culture was his business -- Postscript : McLuhan's art today
Summary "In Distant Early Warning, Alex Kitnick reveals the story of Marshall McLuhan's entanglement with the art and artists of the twentieth-century avant-garde. It is a story packed with big names: Marcel Duchamp, Robert Rauschenberg, Claes Oldenburg, Andy Warhol, Nam June Paik, Tom Wolfe, Harold Rosenberg, Max Kozloff, and more. Kitnick, though, is not focused on celebrity, instead he carefully forges connections between McLuhan, his theories, and the artists of his time with thorough research and superb use of McLuhan's own words. McLuhan's writings on media spread quickly and his provocations about what art should be and what artists should be responsible for fueled then current debates. McLuhan observed that artists are first to act in response to change, and he believed they should be the ones to which we entrust new media and technologies. Thus Rauschenberg's desire to connect with culture through things is met with McLuhan's faith in artists as bellwethers of the networked world. In his postscript, Kitnick overlays McLuhan's faith onto the state of contemporary and post-internet art. This final channeling of McLuhan is a swift and beautiful analysis, with a personal touch, of art's recent transgressions and what its future may hold"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject McLuhan, Marshall, 1911-1980 -- Aesthetics
SUBJECT McLuhan, Marshall, 1911-1980 fast
Subject Art criticism -- History -- 20th century
Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Philosophy
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
ART / General.
Aesthetics
Art criticism
Art, Modern -- Philosophy
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021009504
ISBN 9780226753591
022675359X