The Vision Machine
Item Number
N7430.5
Author/Artist/Editor
Paul Virilio
Type
Book, Hard Copy
Date
1994
Press/Publisher
Indiana University Press
Language
English
Description
A challenging survey of the technologies of perception, production and dissemination of images throughout history by one of France's leading contemporary intellectuals, Paul Virilio. Surveying art history as well as the technologies of war and urban planning, Virilio provides us with an introduction to a new "logistics of the image". From the era of painting, engraving and architect