Surface: Matters of Aesthetics, Materiality, and Media

by Giuliana Bruno

Book Overview

What is the place of materiality--the expression or condition of physical substance--in our visual age of rapidly changing materials and media? How is it fashioned in the arts or manifested in virtual forms? In Surface, cultural critic and theorist Giuliana Bruno deftly explores these questions, seeking to understand materiality in the contemporary world.

Arguing that materiality is not a question of the materials themselves but rather...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022643463X
• ISBN13: 9780226434636
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.0" x 9.7"