Crary, Jonathan

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Name (Latin)
Crary, Jonathan
Other forms of name
Crary, Jonathan Knight
Date of birth
1951
Field of activity
Art criticism
Occupation
Art critics
College teachers
Essayists
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
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Other Identifiers

VIAF: 32084528
Wikidata: Q6272840
Library of congress: n 90634067
Sources of Information
  • 24/7, 2014:title page (Jonathan Crary) page 4 of cover (Meyer Schapiro Professor of Modern Art and Theory at Columbia University; his books include Techniques of the observer and Suspensions of perception)
  • Modernity and the formation of the observer 1810-1845, 1987:t.p. (Jonathan Knight Crary)
  • Suspenciones de la percepción: atención, espectáculo y cultura moderna, 2008:t.p. (Jonathan Crary)
  • Techniques of the observer, c1990:CIP t.p. (Jonathan Crary)
  • Wikipedia, July 24, 2014(Jonathan Crary, is an art critic and essayist, and is Meyer Schapiro Professor of Modern Art and Theory at Columbia University in New York. His first notable works were Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the 19th Century (1990), and Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle and Modern Culture (2000). He has published critical essays for over 30 Exhibition catalogues, mostly on contemporary art; attended high school at the Putney School in Vermont; graduated from Columbia College where he was an art history major. In 1987 he received his Ph.D from Columbia as well; also earned a B.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute, where he studied film and photography; first taught at the Visual Arts Department at University of California, San Diego; began teaching at Columbia in 1989)
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