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Surface

Paperback • 2017 • 1. edition

Surface

By Giuliana Bruno

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About the book

What is the place of materiality the expression or condition of physical substance in our visual age of rapidly changing materials and media? How is it fashioned in the arts or manifested in virtual forms? In Surface, cultural critic and theorist Giuliana Bruno deftly explores these questions, seeking to understand materiality in the contemporary world. Arguing that materiality is not a question of the materials themselves but rather the substance of material relations, Bruno investigates the sp...Show more

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9780226434636

Publisher

The University of Chicago Press

Published year

2017

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1

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Surface

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Paperback

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