Batteries of life : on the history of things and their perception in modernity

Author

Asendorf, Christoph; Reneau, Don (Translator)

Document type

Livre

Language

English

Collection

Weimar and now : German cultural criticism ; Num. 4.

Source

Originally published in German as: Batterien der Lebenskraft : zur Geschichte der Dinge und ihrer Wahrnehmung im 19. Jahrhundert. Giessen : Anabas-Verlag, 1984. ; 1993 ; vi, 248 p.; ill.; bibliogr. ref.; index

Publisher

University of California Press, Berkeley (usa)

Publication country

United States

Abstract (en)

Explores the transformation of human sense perception in the industrial age, through analyses of literature, painting, architecture, film, philosophy, anthropology and popular culture. Considers works by Manet, Monet, Degas, and Duchamp, as well as influential structures such as Paxton's Crystal Palace in London, in an attempt to demonstrate the role of technology in the emergence of consumer culture in modern Europe.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1800-1945
• Industry
• 1800-1900
• Art
• Culture
• Consumers
• Manet, Edouard, 1832-1883
• Monet, Claude, 1840-1926
• Degas, Edgar, 1834-1917
• Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968
• Commodities
• Perception
• Technology
• Modernity

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1800-1945
• Industrie
• 1800-1900
• Art
• Culture
• Consommateurs
• Manet, Edouard, 1832-1883
• Monet, Claude, 1840-1926
• Degas, Edgar, 1834-1917
• Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968
• Marchandise
• Perception
• Technologie
• Modernité

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19941001-00348573

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