Art and Fear [Paperback]

Paul Virilio (Author), Julie Rose (Translator)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 2004

Art and Fear is compulsory reading for anyone still wondering where art has gone and where science is taking us. Paul Virilio traces the twin development of art and science over the 20th Century, a development that emerges as a nightmare dance of death. In Virilio's scorching vision, art and science vie with each other for the destruction of the human form as we know it. At the start of the 21st Century science has finally left art behind as genetic engineers prepare to turn themselves into the worst of expressionists, the Human Genome Project their godless manifesto, the human being, the raw material for new and monstrous forms of life. A brutal logic rules this shattering of representation: our ways of seeing are now fatally shaped by unprecedented 'scientific' modes of destruction.

Editorial Reviews

Review

'In Art and Fear, he makes his brutal logic shockingly clear.' Blueprint; 'Is Virilio a strident critic out of touch with contemporary culture or is Art and Fear a deft excoriation of excess? Either way, this is a short, sharp and gripping book.' Modern Painters

About the Author

Paul Virilio is Director of the Ecole speciale d'Architecture in Paris and author of over 15 books including Desert Screen. Julie Rose is a freelance translator and has translated The Vision Machine, The Art of the Motor, Open Sky, and A Landscape of Events

Product Details

• Paperback: 115 pages
• Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group (September 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0826473199
• ISBN-13: 978-0826473196
• Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 5.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,487,011 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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