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Book SynopsisTrade Review"...what in another writer’s hands might have been a dry academic treatise turns out to be a lively ramble through high and low culture, touching on the likes of Diderot, Goethe, David Foster Wallace, Susan Sontag, Sleeping Beauty, the Countess de Castiglione and Andy Warhol." * Wall Street Journal *
"Reed seeds his profundities throughout
Slow Art in example after example, weaving them into compelling histories that get you thinking about art in new ways." * The Santa Fe New Mexican *
"It has an interesting point to make when it comes to the relationship between stillness and motion, layering and adding dimensions as well as approaching art from a “slow” angle instead of the artwork itself necessarily carrying such qualities. What seems to be a fad and neologism, is actually based on a concept that harks back to ancient times yet what is exemplified in the book is that it is inextricably with our current state of affairs and the future."
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Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
List of Video Examples
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Marking Time
PART I: DRAWING OUT SLOW ART
1. What Is Slow Art? (When Images Swell into Events and Events Condense into Images)
2. Living(?) Pictures
PART II: EPISODES FROM A SHORT HISTORY OF SLOW LOOKING
3. Before Slow Art
4. Slow Art Emerges in Modernity I: Secularization from Diderot to Wilde
5. Slow Art Emerges in Modernity II: The Great Age of Speed
PART III: SLOW ART NOW
6. Slow Fiction, Film, Video, Performance Art, 1960 to 2010
7. Slow Photography, Painting, Installation Art, Sculpture, 1960 to 2010
8. Angel and Devil of Slow Art
Notes
Bibliography
Index
