Duncan White
Biographic Data
| ID | 3860127 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Duncan White |
| GIVEN NAMES | Duncan |
| FAMILY NAME | White |
| SIGNATURE | WHITE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Saint Martin's University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
An ‘Automatic Escape’ or a ‘Beautiful Question’? Cinema and Experimental Film after Michael Fried’s ‘Art and Objecthood’
This article considers the small run of experimental films made by Robert Morris in the years immediately after the publication of Michael Fried’s essay, ‘Art and Objecthood’. The author argues that Morris’s films were a form of reply to the essay and enact, on screen, many of the issues at play in the discussions between Fried and Morris and other Minimal artists from the time, such as theatricality, the mobility of the viewer and medium specifi…
Nabokov and his Books: Between Late Modernism and the Literary Marketplace
At the outbreak of the Second World War Vladimir Nabokov stood on the brink of losing everything all over again. The reputation he had built as the pre-eminent Russian novelist in exile was imperilled. In Nabokov and his Books, Duncan White shows how Nabokov went to America and not only reinvented himself as an American writer but also used the success of Lolita to rescue those Russian books that had been threatened by obscurity. Using previously…
Media is sensational: Art and mediation in the experience economy
In May 2012, I organized the symposium 'Lighting the Cave' at Central Saint Martins in London. The symposium set out 'to interrogate themes of light, reflection and "truth" in and across the expanded field of artists' film and video'. Sean Cubitt's article, which follows this article, is a revised version of the keynote presentation he gave that day, entitled, 'The shadow', and sets the tone for much of what follows. 'Lighting the cave' was in ma…
British Expanded Cinema and the ‘Live Culture’ 1969–79
Expanded Cinema, a loosely knit set of practices incorporating film, video, performance and multiple screens, enjoyed its most visible period in the UK during the early 1970s. Marked by the culmination of various avant-garde movements and experiments with new media – namely video art – this was also a period of increased proliferation of live media in everyday life in the UK. But the ‘live event’, as Stuart Laing points out, was not simply the pr…
George Knox, Piazzetta: A Tercentenary Exhibition of Drawings, Prints and Books
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George Knox, Piazzetta: A Tercentenary Exhibition of Drawings, Prints and Books
British Expanded Cinema and the ‘Live Culture’ 1969–79
Expanded Cinema, a loosely knit set of practices incorporating film, video, performance and multiple screens, enjoyed its most visible period in the UK during the early 1970s. Marked by the culmination of various avant-garde movements and experiments with new media – namely video art – this was also a period of increased proliferation of live media in everyday life in the UK. But the ‘live event’, as Stuart Laing points out, was not simply the pr…
Media is sensational: Art and mediation in the experience economy
In May 2012, I organized the symposium 'Lighting the Cave' at Central Saint Martins in London. The symposium set out 'to interrogate themes of light, reflection and "truth" in and across the expanded field of artists' film and video'. Sean Cubitt's article, which follows this article, is a revised version of the keynote presentation he gave that day, entitled, 'The shadow', and sets the tone for much of what follows. 'Lighting the cave' was in ma…
An ‘Automatic Escape’ or a ‘Beautiful Question’? Cinema and Experimental Film after Michael Fried’s ‘Art and Objecthood’
This article considers the small run of experimental films made by Robert Morris in the years immediately after the publication of Michael Fried’s essay, ‘Art and Objecthood’. The author argues that Morris’s films were a form of reply to the essay and enact, on screen, many of the issues at play in the discussions between Fried and Morris and other Minimal artists from the time, such as theatricality, the mobility of the viewer and medium specifi…
Nabokov and his Books: Between Late Modernism and the Literary Marketplace
At the outbreak of the Second World War Vladimir Nabokov stood on the brink of losing everything all over again. The reputation he had built as the pre-eminent Russian novelist in exile was imperilled. In Nabokov and his Books, Duncan White shows how Nabokov went to America and not only reinvented himself as an American writer but also used the success of Lolita to rescue those Russian books that had been threatened by obscurity. Using previously…
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