Main entry:

Edensor, Tim, 1957- author.

Title & Author:

From light to dark : daylight, illumination, and gloom / Tim Edensor.

Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2017]
©2017

Description:

xiv, 248 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-239) and index.
Geographies of light and dark -- Light -- Seeing with landscape, seeing with light -- Under the dynamic sky : living and creating with light -- Illumination -- Electric desire : lighting the vernacular and illuminating nostalgia -- Caught in the light : power, inequality, and illumination -- Festivals of illumination : painting and playing with light -- Staging atmosphere : public extravaganzas and domestic designs -- Dark -- Nocturnes : changing meanings of darkness -- The reenchantment of darkness : the pleasures of noir -- The novelty of light and the value of darkness.

Summary:

Examining the effects of daylight on our perception of landscape, Tim Edensor reveals through the lens of architectural practice how illumination is often contested and invoked to express power. Edensor explores how capitalist, class, ethnic, military, and state power use lighting to reinforce their authority over space; considers festivals of illumination and light artists such as Olafur Eliasson; and turns a critical eye to the supposedly dangerous, sinister associations of darkness. Viewing the modern city as a space of fantasy through electric illumination, he studies how we seek-and should seek-new forms of darkness in reaction to the perpetual glow of urban lighting. Highly original and absorbingly written, From Light to Dark analyzes a vast and diverse array of artistic interventions, spaces, and lighting technologies to explore this most basic of human experiences. Book jacket.

ISBN:

9780816694426 (hc ; alk. paper)
0816694427 (hc ; alk. paper)
9780816694433 (pb ; alk. paper)
0816694435 (pb ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Light and darkness.
Light.
Light Psychological aspects.
Light art.
Shades and shadows.
Visual perception.
Visual Perception
Lumière.
Lumière Aspect psychologique.
Art de la lumière.
Ombres.
Perception visuelle.
light (energy)
light art.
visual perception.
Tageslicht
Licht
Dunkelheit
Schatten
Beleuchtung
Lichtkunst
Visuelle Wahrnehmung
Psychologie

Holdings:

Location: Library main 295799
Call No.: BIB 242194
Status: Available