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Good Looking: Essays On The Virtue Of Images
by Stafford, Barbara Maria
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- Hardcover
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Kings Cross, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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MIT Press, Cambridge MA 1997. 23.5 x 18.5cms, 258pp, b/w illusts, very good+ hardcover & dustwrapper This book challenges the reflexive identification of images with vice (ie aesthetic illusions; museum displays; cable TV; hypermedia) and calls for a positive visual praxis. The section headings are: enlightenment/re-enlightenment (ie the explosing of optical information); practising vision (the need for an imaging interdiscipline); aesthetical ethics ( the ethical dilemmas of technological transparency).
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- Bookseller
- THE CROSS Art + Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 134379
- Title
- Good Looking: Essays On The Virtue Of Images
- Author
- Stafford, Barbara Maria
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- MIT Press, Cambridge MA 1997
- Keywords
- phenomenology museums
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Kings Cross, Sydney, New South Wales
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THE CROSS ART + BOOKS
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We stock books about art, design, fashion and history, with a lot of books about Asian, Australian and Pacific arts, crafts, design and cultural history. We have books on women artists, academic analyses and dissident life as well as monographs on Old Masters and avant-garde artists.
Our shop is in Sydney's legendary Kings Cross, which provided alternatives to Australia's normalities and suburbia for 80 years. Colloquially known as The Cross, this name signifies Antipodean bohemia, street gangs and a famous red light district.
We buy quality books on the visual arts, architecture & design. We do not sell any children's books, cooking books, novels or self-help books. Five minutes walk from Kings Cross station, we are open between 10 – 6, every day of the week.
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- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...