A Companion to Digital Art

A Companion to Digital Art - Wiley Blackwell Companions to Art History

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Publisher's Synopsis

Reflecting the dynamic creativity of its subject, this definitive guide spans the evolution, aesthetics, and practice of today's digital art, combining fresh, emerging perspectives with the nuanced insights of leading theorists.

  • Showcases the critical and theoretical approaches in this fast-moving discipline
  • Explores the history and evolution of digital art; its aesthetics and politics; as well as its often turbulent relationships with established institutions
  • Provides a platform for the most influential voices shaping the current discourse surrounding digital art, combining fresh, emerging perspectives with the nuanced insights of leading theorists
  • Tackles digital art's primary practical challenges - how to present, document, and preserve pieces that could be erased forever by rapidly accelerating technological obsolescence
  • Up-to-date, forward-looking, and critically reflective, this authoritative new collection is informed throughout by a deep appreciation of the technical intricacies of digital art

Book information

ISBN: 9781118475201
Publisher: Wiley
Imprint: Wiley Blackwell
Pub date:
DEWEY: 776
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: xviii, 608
Weight: 1232g
Height: 253mm
Width: 179mm
Spine width: 30mm