Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource WORM COLLECTION Book Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context WCBK0125 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jonathan Crary Title A name given to the resource Techniques of the Observer: on vision and modernity in the nineteeth century Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available MIT press Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1993 Description An account of the resource <a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/techniques-observer">In Techniques of the Observer Jonathan Crary provides a dramatically new perspective on the visual culture of the nineteenth century, reassessing problems of both visual modernism and social modernity. Inverting conventional approaches, Crary considers the problem of visuality not through the study of art works and images, but by analyzing the historical construction of the observer. He insists that the problems of vision are inseparable from the operation of social power and examines how, beginning in the 1820s, the observer became the site of new discourses and practices that situated vision within the body as a physiological event. Alongside the sudden appearance of physiological optics, Crary points out, theories and models of "subjective vision" were developed that gave the observer a new autonomy and productivity while simultaneously allowing new forms of control and standardization of vision. Crary examines a range of diverse work in philosophy, in the empirical sciences, and in the elements of an emerging mass visual culture. He discusses at length the significance of optical apparatuses such as the stereoscope and of precinematic devices, detailing how they were the product of new physiological knowledge. He also shows how these forms of mass culture, usually labeled as "realist," were in fact based on abstract models of vision, and he suggests that mimetic or perspectival notions of vision and representation were initially abandoned in the first half of the nineteenth century within a variety of powerful institutions and discourses, well before the modernist painting of the 1870s and 1880s.</a> Language A language of the resource English Subject The topic of the resource Art history, nineteenth century, reflections on visual language Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Originally published in 1990 Relation A related resource <a href="http://www.conceptlab.com/notes/crary-techniques_of_the_observer.html">a list of all the citations in this book<br /><br /></a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 171 pages Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant USA