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In the Blink of an Ear: Toward a Non-Cochlear Sonic Art

In the Blink of an Ear: Toward a Non-Cochlear Sonic Art

Kim-Cohen, Seth

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Art Criticism & Theory

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ISBN10: 082642970X
ISBN13: 9780826429704
Publisher: Continuum
Pages: 267
Weight: 1.10
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.10 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

An ear-opening reassessment of sonic art from World War II to the present

Marcel Duchamp famously championed a non-retinal visual art, rejecting judgments of taste and beauty. In the Blink of an Ear is the first book to ask why the sonic arts did not experience a parallel turn toward a non-cochlear sonic art, imagined as both a response and a complement to Duchamp's conceptualism. Rather than treat sound art as an artistic practice unto itself-or as the unwanted child of music-artist and theorist Seth Kim-Cohen relates the post-War sonic arts to contemporaneous movements in the gallery arts. Applying key ideas from poststructuralism, deconstruction, and art history, In the Blink of an Ear suggests that the sonic arts have been subject to the same cultural pressures that have shaped minimalism, conceptualism, appropriation, and relational aesthetics. Sonic practice and theory have downplayed - or, in many cases, completely rejected - the de-formalization of the artwork and its simultaneous animation in the conceptual realm.

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