Hiding: Volume 1996 Paperback - 1998
by Mark C. Taylor
Questions that have long haunted the philosophical imagination are becoming urgent practical concerns: Where does the natural end and the artificial begin? Is there a difference between the material and the immaterial? In this new work, Mark C. Taylor extends his ongoing investigation of postmodern worlds by critically examining a wide range of contemporary cultural practices. 168 illustrations. 13 color plates.
From the rear cover
Nothing defines postmodernism so well as its refusal of depth, its emphasis on appearance and spectacle, and its tendency to collapse a three-dimensional world in which image and reality are distinct into a two-dimensional world in which they merge. Our postmodern world is a world of surfaces and our postmodern condition one of profound superficiality. For Mark C. Taylor, the disappearance of depth we sense all around us is a change full of creative possibility. Taylor introduces us to a popular culture in which detectives - the postmodern heroes of Paul Auster and Dennis Potter - lift surfaces only to find more surfaces, and in which fashion advertising plays transparency against hiding. He looks at the current preoccupation with body piercing and tattooing and asks whether these practices actually reveal or conceal. The limitless spread of computer networks, the history of phrenology, the "religious" architecture of Las Vegas - all are brought within the scope of Taylor's brilliant analysis. Postmodernism, he shows, has given us a new sense of the superficial, one in which the issue is not the absence of meaning but its uncontrollable, ecstatic proliferation. Conceived and developed with designers Michael Rock and Susan Sellers, this work transgresses the boundary that customarily separates graphic design from the story within a text and embodies the very tendencies it analyzes.
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- Title Hiding: Volume 1996
- Author Mark C. Taylor
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 360
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
- Date 1998-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated
- ISBN 9780226791593 / 0226791599
- Weight 1.82 lbs (0.83 kg)
- Dimensions 9.09 x 7.33 x 0.96 in (23.09 x 18.62 x 2.44 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Postmodernism, Theology
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97015648
- Dewey Decimal Code 210
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Citations
- New York Times, 12/07/1997, Page 88
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