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Speed: Visions of an Accelerated Age

Speed: Visions of an Accelerated Age
Library Shelf Location 17.SPEE
Publication Date 1998
Description Notes Exhibition catalogue of exhibition held at Whitechapel Art Gallery, 11 Sept.-22 Nov. 1998, The Photographers' Gallery 19 Sept.-14 Nov 1998 and Macdonald Stewart Art Centre 24 Sept.-31 Oct. 1998. Published in association with the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph and the Netherlands Design Institute, Amsterdam. Includes bibliographical references. Contents Foreword / Catherine Lampert and Paul Wombell -- Speed is a vehicle / Jeremy Millar and Michiel Schwarz -- Profound today / Blaise Cendrars -- Pure speed, from transport to teleport / Scott McQuire -- Last vehicle / Paul Virilio -- Impressions of speed / JG Ballard -- Modernity as mobilisation / Peter Sloterdijk -- Kakania / Robert Musil -- Will to motorisation, cinema and the autobahn / Edward Dimendberg -- Belle Américaine, car culture in post-war France / Kristin Ross -- Crowd Roars, suspense and the cinema / Peter Wollen -- Rejectamenta / Jeremy Millar -- Qamanittuaq / Nancy Campbell adn Judith Nasby --Fast castes / Susan George -- Speed limits / Wolfgang Sachs -- Time, the longing for the moment / Helga Nowotny -- Fast forward / Mark Kingwell -- Speed? What speed? / Ivan Illich, Matthias Rieger and Sebastian Trapp. Subject Technological innovations — Exhibitions. Art, Modern — 20th century — Exhibitions. Speed in art — Exhibitions. Art — 20th century — Exhibitions. Speed in literature — Exhibitions. Movement - Exhibitions. Photography - 20th century - Exhibitions. Technology - 20th century - Exhibitions. Motion in art.
ISBN 0907879543
Quantity 1
Pages 171 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.
Editors Michiel Schwarz, Jeremy Millar
Format Paperback
Publisher Photographers Gallery, London
Category Group Exhibition/Multiple Artists
Keyword Motion
Language English

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