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Boredom

Paperback • 2017 • 1. edition

Boredom

By Tom McDonough

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About the book

Without boredom, arguably there is no modernity: the current sense of the word emerged simultaneously with industrialization, mass politics, and consumerism. From Manet onward, when art represents the everyday within modern life, encounters with tedium are inevitable. And from modernism's retreat into abstraction to subsequent demands placed on audiences from the late 1960s to the present, the viewer's endurance of repetition, slowness, or other forms of monotony has become an anticipated featur...Show more

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9780262533447

Publisher

MIT Press Ltd

Published year

2017

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1

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Boredom

Format

Paperback

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