Art Of Interruption: Realism, Photography, And The Everyday; Author: Roberts, John; Hardback; Book

Author: Roberts, John
Photography, Critical Views; Hardback; Book; 30 Colour Illustrations, 90 B&w Illustrations
208 pages
Published: June 1998
Manchester University Press
ISBN: 0719035600
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Art of Interruption is the first major examination of the relationship between photography and art, and the philosophical and aesthetic categories of realism and the everyday. Beginningwith the massive reorientation of photographic practice during the Russian revolution and ending with contemporary debates on the body and digital technology, John Roberts presents the history of twentieth-century photography and art as an extensive interplay between realism and the everyday. This book offers a history of how the uses and reception of photography has oriented itself to the world and the world of art. Roberts' claim, consequently, is to reinstate the long and troubled debate on realism in photography as fundamental to understanding the development and crises of art this cenA history of theories of photographic practices, this text sets out to defend the philosophic claims of realism in assessing photography in the 20th century and presents a dialogic defence of the naturalistic or documentary image.