Electrographic Architecture

New York Color, Las Vegas Light, and America's White Imaginary
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-0-520-39260-1
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 228 mm x 152 mm, Gewicht: 448 g

Bridging histories of technology, media studies, and aesthetics, Electrographic Architecture forges a critical narrative of the ways in which illuminated light and color have played key roles in the formation of America's white imaginary. Carolyn L. Kane charts the rise of the country's urban advertisements, light empires, and neoclassical buildings in the early twentieth century; the midcentury construction of polychromatic electrographic spectacles; and their eclipse by informatically intense, invisible algorithms at the dawn of the new millennium. Drawing on archival research, interviews, and visual analysis, Electrographic Architecture shows how the development of America's electrographic surround runs parallel to a new paradigm of power, property, and possession.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kane, Carolyn L.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttechniken & Prinzipien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wissenssoziologie, Wissenschaftssoziologie, Techniksoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction: White like No Other

1. Synthetic White, 10,000 BC–1700 AD

2. Edison’s White Light Empire, 1750–1881

3. The “Great White Way,” 1880s–1910

4. Douglas Leigh’s Times Square Spectaculars, 1930–1960

5. The Young Electric Sign Company and Las Vegas Neon, 1920–1970

6. Jenny Holzer’s Light Art as Urban Critique, 1970–1990

Conclusion: Chromophobia in the Smart City, 1992–2022

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Carolyn L. Kane is author of High-Tech Trash: Glitch, Noise, and Aesthetic Failure and Chromatic Algorithms: Synthetic Color, Computer Art, and Aesthetics after Code.