{"product_id":"from-light-to-dark-daylight-illumination-and-gloom-hardback-9780816694426","title":"From Light to Dark; Daylight, Illumination, and Gloom (Hardback) 9780816694426","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFrom Light to Dark\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eDaylight, Illumination, and Gloom\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eTim Edensor (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780816694426\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 21 March 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e288 pages, 28\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 3.8 cm, 0.41 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Illumination is one of the aspects of life that has become so obvious we have stopped noticing it. In this innovative and illuminating book, Tim Edensor provides an elegant and necessary account of light and dark, their role in the production of everyday life, the stories we tell about them, and the emotions they engender.  He has performed a key task of any critical thinker-taking the obvious and making it visible again.\"-Tim Cresswell, Trinity College\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The wealth of sources and documents one finds in \u003ci\u003eFrom Light to Dark\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the great merits of the book.\"-\u003ci\u003eLeonardo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"With many such insights and many more examples of the ways in which we may reframe the scholarship of modern perception and sensory experience, \u003ci\u003eFrom Light to Dark\u003c\/i\u003e certainly deserve[s] further attention.\"-\u003ci\u003eJournal of Design History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLight pervades the world, and when it is not light, darkness emerges and is combated by electric illumination. Despite this globally shared human experience in which spaces appear radically different depending on time, season, and weather, social science investigation on the subject is meager. \u003ci\u003eFrom Light to Dark \u003c\/i\u003efills this gap, focusing on our interaction with daylight, illumination, and darkness. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTim Edensor begins by examining the effects of daylight on our perception of landscape, drawing on artworks, particular landscapes, and architectural practice. He then considers the ways in which illumination is often contested and can be used to express power, looking at how capitalist, class, ethnic, military, and state power use lighting to reinforce their authority over space. Edensor also considers light artists such as Olafur Eliasson and festivals of illumination before turning a critical eye to the supposedly dangerous, sinister associations of darkness. In examining the modern city as a space of fantasy through electric illumination, he studies how we are seeking-and should seek-new forms of darkness in reaction to the perpetual glow of urban lighting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHighly original and absorbingly written,\u003ci\u003e From Light to Dark\u003c\/i\u003e analyzes a vast array of artistic interventions, diverse spaces, and lighting technologies to explore these most basic human experiences.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Geographies of Light and Dark\u003cbr\u003ePart I. Light\u003cbr\u003e1. Seeing with Landscape, Seeing with Light\u003cbr\u003e2. Under the Dynamic Sky: Living and Creating with Light\u003cbr\u003ePart II. Illumination\u003cbr\u003e3. Electric Desire: Lighting the Vernacular and Illuminating Nostalgia\u003cbr\u003e4. Caught in the Light: Power, Inequality, and Illumination\u003cbr\u003e5. Festivals of Illumination: Painting and Playing with Light\u003cbr\u003e6. Staging Atmosphere: Public Extravaganzas and Homely Designs\u003cbr\u003ePart III. Dark\u003cbr\u003e7. Nocturnes: Changing Meanings of Darkness\u003cbr\u003e8. The Re-enchantment of Darkness: The Pleasures of Noir\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: The Novelty of Light and the Value of Darkness\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52570085294360,"sku":"9780816694426","price":61.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/from-light-to-dark-daylight-illumination-and-gloom-hardback-9780816694426","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}