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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459078703321

Autore

Kim-Cohen Seth

Titolo

In the blink of an ear [[electronic resource] ] : towards a non-cochlear sonic art / / by Seth Kim-Cohen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Continuum, 2009

ISBN

1-282-87646-5

9786612876462

1-4411-8307-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (292 p.)

Disciplina

701/.8

Soggetti

Sound in art

Arts, Modern - 20th century

Arts, Modern - 21st century

Aesthetics, Modern - 20th century

Aesthetics, Modern - 21st century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION: At, Out, About; CHAPTER 1 In One Ear, Out the Other; CHAPTER 2 Be More Specific; CHAPTER 3 The Perception of Primacy; CHAPTER 4 Ohrenblick; CHAPTER 5 Sound-in-Itself; CHAPTER 6 Unhearing Cage; CHAPTER 7 Sound-out-of-Itself; CHAPTER 8 A Dot on a Line; CONCLUSION: Lend an Ear; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Polemical, revisionist, prescriptive: In The Blink of an Ear argues for a reassessment of the short history of sound art, rejecting the tendency toward sound-in-itself in favour of a reading of sound's expanded situation and its uncontainable textuality. It has been nearly a century since Marcel Duchamp famously proposed a 'non-retinal' visual art, rejecting judgments of taste and beauty. In The Blink of an Ear asks why the sonic arts did not experience a parallel turn toward a non-cochlear sonic art, imagined as both a response and a complement to Duchamp's conceptualism. Rather than treat so