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Title Seeing degree zero : Barthes/Burgin and political aesthetics / edited by Ryan Bishop and Sunil Manghani ; with contributions from Christine Berthin, Victor Burgin, Sean Cubitt, Gordon Hon, Kristen Kreider, James O'Leary, and Domietta Torlasco
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]
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Description 1 online resource (ix, 440 pages) : illustrations
Contents pt. I Degrees and Variations -- Neutral Seeing: Saenredam, Barthes, Burgin / Sunil Manghani -- I was Sitting in a Room: Cybernetic Aesthetics and Victor Burgin's Projection Loops / Ryan Bishop -- The Situation of Practice / Victor Burgin -- pt. II Image Degree Zero -- Painting, Photography, Projection / Sunil Manghani -- The End of the Frame / Victor Burgin -- Camera as Object and Process / Victor Burgin -- Prairie / Victor Burgin -- pt. III Writerly Readings -- Pre-occupations: Calling Up Ghosts in A Place to Read and Belledonne / Christine Berthin -- Prairie (Argo) / James O'Leary -- Photography as Rhythm: On Prairie / Domietta Torlasco -- The Work of Death in Burgin's Belledonne / Gordon Hon
Summary In literature and the visual arts, zero degree represents a neutral aesthetic situated in response to and outside of the dominant cultural order. Starting from Roland Barthes' 1953 book Writing Degree Zero, this volume examines the historical, theoretical and visual aspects of the term in collaboration with artist and writer Victor Burgin
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Barthes, Roland -- Influence
Barthes, Roland. Degré zéro de l'écriture. English.
Burgin, Victor
SUBJECT Barthes, Roland fast
Burgin, Victor fast
Subject Aesthetics.
Art appreciation.
Semiotics and art.
ART / Criticism & Theory
Art appreciation
Aesthetics
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Semiotics and art
Form Electronic book
Author Bishop, Ryan, 1959- editor.
Manghani, Sunil, editor
Burgin, Victor, contributor
ISBN 9781474431439
1474431437
9781474465229
1474465226
9781474431446
1474431445
Other Titles Seeing degree 0