{"product_id":"no-medium-9780262527552","title":"No Medium","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Craig Dworkin\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: History - Contemporary (1945- )\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eClose readings of ostensibly \"blank\" works--from unprinted pages to silent music--that point to a new understanding of media.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eNo Medium\u003c\/i\u003e, Craig Dworkin looks at works that are blank, erased, clear, or silent, writing critically and substantively about works for which there would seem to be not only nothing to see but nothing to say. Examined closely, these ostensibly contentless works of art, literature, and music point to a new understanding of media and the limits of the artistic object.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDworkin considers works predicated on blank sheets of paper, from a fictional collection of poems in Jean Cocteau's \u003ci\u003eOrphée\u003c\/i\u003e to the actual publication of a ream of typing paper as a book of poetry; he compares Robert Rauschenberg's \u003ci\u003eErased De Kooning Drawin\u003c\/i\u003eg to the artist Nick Thurston's erased copy of Maurice Blanchot's \u003ci\u003eThe Space of Literature\u003c\/i\u003e (in which only Thurston's marginalia were visible); and he scrutinizes the sexual politics of photographic representation and the implications of obscured or obliterated subjects of photographs. Reexamining the famous case of John Cage's \u003ci\u003e4'33\"\u003c\/i\u003e, Dworkin links Cage's composition to Rauschenberg's \u003ci\u003eWhite Paintings\u003c\/i\u003e, Ken Friedman's \u003ci\u003eZen for Record\u003c\/i\u003e (and Nam June Paik's \u003ci\u003eZen for Film\u003c\/i\u003e), and other works, offering also a \"guide to further listening\" that surveys more than 100 scores and recordings of \"silent\" music.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDworkin argues that we should understand media not as blank, base things but as social events, and that there is no medium, understood in isolation, but only and always a plurality of media: interpretive activities taking place in socially inscribed space.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46487016276119,"sku":"9780262527552","price":2932.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780262527552.jpg?v=1766332752","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/no-medium-9780262527552","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}