{"product_id":"distant-early-warning-9780226753454","title":"Distant Early Warning","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarshall McLuhan (19111980) is best known as a media theoristmany consider him the founder of media studiesbut he was also an important theorist of art. Though a near-household name for decades due to magazine interviews and TV specials, McLuhan remains an underappreciated yet fascinating figure in art history. His connections with the art of his own time were largely unexplored, until now. InDistant Early Warning, art historian Alex Kitnick delves into these rich connections and argues both that McLuhan was influenced by art and artists and, more surprisingly, that McLuhan's work directly influenced the art and artists of his time.     Kitnick builds the story of McLuhan's entanglement with artists by carefully drawing out the connections among McLuhan, his theories, and the artists themselves. The story is packed with big names: Marcel Duchamp, Niki de Saint Phalle, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Nam June Paik, and others. Kitnick masterfully weaves this history with McLuhan's own words \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Each chapter puts McLuhan into context with individual artists... This is a good way to revisit McLuhan, particularly as his work is too often reduced to enigmatic bons mots... [Kitnick] makes a compelling case...\"  * Literary Review of Canada *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1        The Age of Mechanical Production\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2        What It Means to Be Avant-Garde\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3        Lights On\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4        Electronic Opera\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5        Massage, ca. 1966\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6        Information Environment\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7        Culture Was His Business\u003cbr\u003e Postscript: McLuhan’s Art Today\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400107958615,"sku":"9780226753454","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226753454.jpg?v=1730469749","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/distant-early-warning-9780226753454","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}