TY - BOOK ID - 77874258 TI - Framing attention PY - 2007 SN - 1435692098 0801891892 9781435692091 9780801891892 0801884896 9780801884894 0801884896 9780801884894 PB - Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press DB - UniCat KW - Arts and society KW - Arts, German KW - Windows in art. KW - Arts KW - Arts and sociology KW - Society and the arts KW - Sociology and the arts KW - History KW - Social aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77874258 AB - "In Framing Attention, Lutz Koepnick explores different concepts of the window - in both a literal and a figurative sense - as manifested in various visual forms in German culture from the nineteenth century to the present. He offers a new interpretation of how evolving ways of seeing have characterized and defined modernity." "Koepnick examines the role and representation of window frames in modern German culture - in painting, photography, architecture, and literature, on the stage and in public transportation systems, on the film screen and on television. He presents such frames as interfaces that negotiate competing visions of past and present, body and community, attentiveness and distraction. From Adolph Menzel's window paintings of the 1840s to Nam June Paik's experiments with television screens, from Richard Wagner's retooling of the proscenium stage to Adolf Hitler's use of a window as a means of political self-promotion, Framing Attention offers a theoretically incisive understanding of how windows shape and reframe the way we see the world around us and our place within it."--Jacket ER -