Framing attention
Subtitle: windows on modern German culture
By: Lutz Koepnick.
Series: Parallax; Parallax (Baltimore, Md.)
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9780801884894
Subjects: Windows in art; Arts, German -- 19th century; Arts, German -- 20th century; Arts and society -- Germany -- History -- 19th century; Arts and society -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
Description: "In Framing Attention, Lutz Koepnick explores different concepts of the window - in both a literal and a figurative sense - as manifested in various visual forms in German culture from the nineteenth century to the present. He offers a new interpretation of how evolving ways of seeing have characterized and defined modernity." "Koepnick examines the role and representation of window frames in modern German culture - in painting, photography, architecture, and literature, on the stage and in public transportation systems, on the film screen and on television. He presents such frames as interfaces that negotiate competing visions of past and present, body and community, attentiveness and distraction. From Adolph Menzel's window paintings of the 1840s to Nam June Paik's experiments with television screens, from Richard Wagner's retooling of the proscenium stage to Adolf Hitler's use of a window as a means of political self-promotion, Framing Attention offers a theoretically incisive understanding of how windows shape and reframe the way we see the world around us and our place within it."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Menzel's rear window; title: Richard Wagner and the framing of modern empathy; title: Early cinema and the windows of empire; title: Underground vision; title: Windows 33/45; title: Fluxus television; title: The nation's new windows; title: Epilogue : "Berliner Fenster".