Cover Image

The practice of light : a genealogy of visual technologies from prints to pixels /

Show other versions (1)

An account of Western visual technologies since the Renaissance traces a history of the increasing control of light's intrinsic excess.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cubitt, Sean, 1953- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014]
Series:Leonardo
Subjects:
Art and technology.
Visual perception.
ARTS/Art History/General
DIGITAL HUMANITIES & NEW MEDIA/New Media History
SOCIAL SCIENCES/Media Studies
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Summary:An account of Western visual technologies since the Renaissance traces a history of the increasing control of light's intrinsic excess.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiv, 354 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color).
ISBN:9780262326568
0262326566
9780262326575
0262326574
DOI:10.7551/mitpress/9138.001.0001