Holmboe, Rye Dag and Morris, Susan (Eds).
(2021)
On Boredom: Essays in art and writing.
[Book].
UCL Press: London, UK.
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What do we mean when we say that we are bored? Or when we find a subject boring? Contributors to On Boredom: Essays in art and writing, which include artists, art historians, psychoanalysts and a novelist, examine boredom in its manifold and uncertain reality. Each part of the book takes up a crucial moment in the history of boredom and presents it in a new light, taking the reader from the trials of the consulting room to the experience of hysteria in the nineteenth century. The book pays particular attention to boredom’s relationship with the sudden and rapid advances in technology that have occurred in recent decades, specifically technologies of communication, surveillance and automation. On Boredom is idiosyncratic for its combination of image and text, and the artworks included in its pages – by Mathew Hale, Martin Creed and Susan Morris – help turn this volume into a material expression of boredom itself. With other contributions from Josh Cohen, Briony Fer, Anouchka Grose, Rye Dag Holmboe, Margaret Iversen, Tom McCarthy and Michael Newman, the book will appeal to readers in the fields of art history, literature, cultural studies and visual culture, from undergraduate students to professional artists working in new media.
| Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Title: | On Boredom: Essays in art and writing |
| ISBN-13: | 9781787359468 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781787359468 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787359468 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Collection © Editors, 2021 Text © Contributors, 2021 Images © Contributors and copyright holders named in captions, 2021 Extract from Satin Island by Tom McCarthy published by Vintage Books. Copyright © 2015 Tom McCarthy. Reproduced by permission of The Random House Group Ltd. This book is published under a Creative Commons 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0). This licence allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work; to adapt the work and to make commercial use of the work providing attribution is made to the authors (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). Attribution should include the following information: Holmboe, R.D. and Morris, S.G. (eds). 2021. On Boredom: Essays in art and writing. London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787359468 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at http://creative commons.org/licenses/ Any third-party material in this book is published under the book’s Creative Commons licence unless indicated otherwise in the credit line to the material. If you would like to reuse any third-party material not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. |
| Keywords: | boredom, cultural studies, art history, psychoanalysis |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10124348 |
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