Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century UPDATE:Default Title from the #1 New York

from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Miller’s Valley and Still Life with Bread Crumbs

William Dean Howells

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very original survey of the politics and meanings of urban landscapes

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Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century UPDATE:Default Title from the #1 New YorkAuthor Contributor(s): Crary, Jonathan Publisher: The MIT Press Date: 2 25 1992 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW Jonathan Crary's Techniques of the Observer provides a dramatically new perspective on the visual culture of the nineteenth century, reassessing problems of both visual modernism and social modernity. This analysis of the historical formation of the observer is a compelling account of the prehistory of the society of the spectacle. In