Garrett Stewart
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780226500874
- eISBN:
- 9780226501062
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226501062.003.0008
- Subject:
- Literature, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies
Exploring such various light artists as James Turrell, Doug Wheeler, and especially Anthony McCall, this chapter concentrates on McCall’s work (in light of Hal Foster’s appreciation) in spanning the ...
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Exploring such various light artists as James Turrell, Doug Wheeler, and especially Anthony McCall, this chapter concentrates on McCall’s work (in light of Hal Foster’s appreciation) in spanning the transition from filmic to digital projection in his “solid light films,” with their manifestation first of film without cinema, then of projection without image: not the representation of occupied narrative space but a habitable and embodied space of light all their own.Less
Exploring such various light artists as James Turrell, Doug Wheeler, and especially Anthony McCall, this chapter concentrates on McCall’s work (in light of Hal Foster’s appreciation) in spanning the transition from filmic to digital projection in his “solid light films,” with their manifestation first of film without cinema, then of projection without image: not the representation of occupied narrative space but a habitable and embodied space of light all their own.
Douglas Kahn
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780520257801
- eISBN:
- 9780520956834
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520257801.003.0017
- Subject:
- Music, Theory, Analysis, Composition
Cinema is considered through electromagnetic propagation in projected and transmitted light in Alexander Graham Bell’s attempt to listen to storms on the sun using his photophone; through the ...
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Cinema is considered through electromagnetic propagation in projected and transmitted light in Alexander Graham Bell’s attempt to listen to storms on the sun using his photophone; through the “head-light child” of automobile headlights and related comet imagery by Marcel Duchamp, including his “tonsure”; and in Anthony McCall’s Line Describing a Cone and James Turrell’s Roden Crater, in the context of his ideas about electromagnetism.Less
Cinema is considered through electromagnetic propagation in projected and transmitted light in Alexander Graham Bell’s attempt to listen to storms on the sun using his photophone; through the “head-light child” of automobile headlights and related comet imagery by Marcel Duchamp, including his “tonsure”; and in Anthony McCall’s Line Describing a Cone and James Turrell’s Roden Crater, in the context of his ideas about electromagnetism.