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/9780520257801.003.0018
- Subject:
- Music, Theory, Analysis, Composition
Robert Barry’s works for the January 5-31, 1969 exhibition, one of the key moments in the history of conceptual art, are described in terms of electromagnetism, from radio carrier waves to ...
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Robert Barry’s works for the January 5-31, 1969 exhibition, one of the key moments in the history of conceptual art, are described in terms of electromagnetism, from radio carrier waves to radioactivity, and ultrasound. Barry’s notion that there is nothing that is not energy is related to the axiomatic positions of John Cage (there is no such thing as silence) and James Turrell (there never is no light). His interest in electromagnetism as a physical force and raw material for art is attributed to the influence of his father, who was an electrical engineer working in the telephone industry. His ideas about electromagnetism are compared with concurrent concerns of Lucy Lippard and the dematerialization of the art object, Art & Language, Buckminster Fuller, and Susan Sontag.Less
Robert Barry’s works for the January 5-31, 1969 exhibition, one of the key moments in the history of conceptual art, are described in terms of electromagnetism, from radio carrier waves to radioactivity, and ultrasound. Barry’s notion that there is nothing that is not energy is related to the axiomatic positions of John Cage (there is no such thing as silence) and James Turrell (there never is no light). His interest in electromagnetism as a physical force and raw material for art is attributed to the influence of his father, who was an electrical engineer working in the telephone industry. His ideas about electromagnetism are compared with concurrent concerns of Lucy Lippard and the dematerialization of the art object, Art & Language, Buckminster Fuller, and Susan Sontag.
Douglas Kahn
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780520257801
- eISBN:
- 9780520956834
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520257801.001.0001
- Subject:
- Music, Theory, Analysis, Composition
Earth Sound Earth Signal is a study of energies in aesthetics and the arts from the birth of modern communications in the nineteenth century to the global transmissions of the present day. Grounded ...
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Earth Sound Earth Signal is a study of energies in aesthetics and the arts from the birth of modern communications in the nineteenth century to the global transmissions of the present day. Grounded in the Aeolian sphere music that Henry David Thoreau heard blowing in telegraph lines and in the Aelectrosonic sounds of natural radio that Thomas Watson heard in telephone lines, the book moves through the histories of science, media, music, and the arts to the 1960s, when the composer Alvin Lucier worked with the “natural electromagnetic sounds” present from “brainwaves to outer space,” through the urban electromagnetism in the conceptual art of Robert Barry, to the energy-scavenging drawings and antennas by the artist Joyce Hinterding. From the sounds of auroras at high latitudes and atmospheric electricity in the mountains to the underground music of earthquakes and nuclear explosions and to music bounced off the moon and the sounds of the sun, Earth Sound Earth Signal rethinks energy at a global scale through detailed discussions of artists and scientists such as Gordon Mumma, Pauline Oliveros, John Cage, James Turrell, Karl-Birger Blomdahl, Paul DeMarinis, Semiconductor, Thomas Ashcraft, Katie Paterson, Edmond Dewan, Ludwik Liszka, and many others.Less
Earth Sound Earth Signal is a study of energies in aesthetics and the arts from the birth of modern communications in the nineteenth century to the global transmissions of the present day. Grounded in the Aeolian sphere music that Henry David Thoreau heard blowing in telegraph lines and in the Aelectrosonic sounds of natural radio that Thomas Watson heard in telephone lines, the book moves through the histories of science, media, music, and the arts to the 1960s, when the composer Alvin Lucier worked with the “natural electromagnetic sounds” present from “brainwaves to outer space,” through the urban electromagnetism in the conceptual art of Robert Barry, to the energy-scavenging drawings and antennas by the artist Joyce Hinterding. From the sounds of auroras at high latitudes and atmospheric electricity in the mountains to the underground music of earthquakes and nuclear explosions and to music bounced off the moon and the sounds of the sun, Earth Sound Earth Signal rethinks energy at a global scale through detailed discussions of artists and scientists such as Gordon Mumma, Pauline Oliveros, John Cage, James Turrell, Karl-Birger Blomdahl, Paul DeMarinis, Semiconductor, Thomas Ashcraft, Katie Paterson, Edmond Dewan, Ludwik Liszka, and many others.
Anahid Nersessian
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- May 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780226701288
- eISBN:
- 9780226701455
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226701455.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, 18th-century Literature
The epilogue compares two very different works of art—Robert Barry's Inert Gas Series and Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal—to find in them both examples of non-referential representation with an ...
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The epilogue compares two very different works of art—Robert Barry's Inert Gas Series and Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal—to find in them both examples of non-referential representation with an explicit ethical motive.Less
The epilogue compares two very different works of art—Robert Barry's Inert Gas Series and Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal—to find in them both examples of non-referential representation with an explicit ethical motive.
