| | | | | |
| | | | Principles of Cerebral MechanicsBy Charles Cros. Introduction and translation by Doug Skinner.
A visionary treatise on perception from the extraordinary polymath Charles Cros—poet, friend to Rimbaud and Verlaine, and inventor of color photography and the phonographEstablishing the author’s standing as the inventeur maudit of his time, Principles of Cerebral Mechanics was first presented to the Academy of Sciences in 1872, but was not published until 1879, and then only in fragmentary form. Setting out to understand the mechanics of perception—the organs of which at the time were too small and inaccessible to be studied directly—Cros instead attempted to reverse-engineer the sensory organs. Whereas his previous inventions in the realms of audio recording and color photography had focused on technology for the senses, with this ambitious essay Cros turned to conceptualizing the technology of the senses themselves: rather than the transmission of color to the retina, here he instead attempted to conceive of how color was transmitted from the retina to the brain. By approaching the human brain as a “mechanism of registration,” Cros’ essay can be set alongside the groundbreaking work of such revolutionary figures who transformed modern vision as Étienne-Jules Marey and Eadweard Muybridge.
Charles Cros (1842–88) was as much Renaissance man as he was poète maudit. A bohemian poet who drank with Verlaine and provided housing to Rimbaud, he also developed the comic monologue as a theatrical genre, and invented both the phonograph (which he named the “paléophone”) and color photography (though he failed to patent either before Thomas Edison or Louis Ducos du Hauron), among other such inventions as a nonmetallic battery and a musical stenographer.
|
|  | Free Shipping UPS GROUND IN THE CONTINENTAL U.S.
FOR CONSUMER ONLINE ORDERS | |
| | | |  | WAKEFIELD PRESSISBN: 9781939663795
USD $13.95 | CAN $19 UK £ 11Pub Date: 8/24/2021
Active | In stock
|
|  | WAKEFIELD PRESSISBN: 9780984115563
USD $13.95 | CAN $19.95 UK £ 12.5Pub Date: 5/31/2012
Active | Out of stock
|
|  | WAKEFIELD PRESSISBN: 9780984115556
USD $12.95 | CAN $18.5 UK £ 10.99Pub Date: 9/30/2011
Active | Out of stock
|
|  | WAKEFIELD PRESSISBN: 9780984115525
USD $12.95 | CAN $18.5 UK £ 10.99Pub Date: 9/30/2010
Active | In stock
|
|  | WAKEFIELD PRESSISBN: 9780984115549
USD $12.95 | CAN $18.5 UK £ 10.99Pub Date: 5/31/2011
Active | Out of stock
|
|
| FORTHCOMING AND NEW: CRITICISM AND THEORY |  | WALTHER KöNIG, KöLNISBN: 9783753302393
USD $18.00 | CAN $25Pub Date: 1/10/2023
Active | In stock
|
|  | WALTHER KöNIG, KöLNISBN: 9783753302713
USD $39.95 | CAN $55.95Pub Date: 7/4/2023
Forthcoming
|
|  | KARMA BOOKS, NEW YORKISBN: 9781949172775
USD $25.00 | CAN $34 UK £ 21.995Pub Date: 10/25/2022
Active | In stock
|
|  | MOUSSE PUBLISHINGISBN: 9788867495122
USD $20.00 | CAN $27Pub Date: 1/24/2023
Active | In stock
|
|  | BOKFöRLAGET STOLPEISBN: 9789189425712
USD $25.00 | CAN $35Pub Date: 5/23/2023
Forthcoming
|
|  | VERLAG FüR MODERNE KUNSTISBN: 9783903439313
USD $35.00 | CAN $49Pub Date: 3/21/2023
Active | In stock
|
|  | SKIRAISBN: 9788857248028
USD $45.00 | CAN $63Pub Date: 9/26/2023
Forthcoming
|
|  | BOKFöRLAGET STOLPEISBN: 9789189425897
USD $20.00 | CAN $28Pub Date: 5/23/2023
Forthcoming
|
|  | ERRANT BODIES PRESSISBN: 9783982316659
USD $18.00 | CAN $25Pub Date: 3/14/2023
Active | In stock
|
|  | KAPH BOOKSISBN: 9786148035500
USD $40.00 | CAN $56Pub Date: 7/4/2023
Forthcoming
|
|  | STEIDLISBN: 9783969991138
USD $40.00 | CAN $56Pub Date: 7/4/2023
Forthcoming
|
|  | HATJE CANTZISBN: 9783775754569
USD $34.95 | CAN $48.95Pub Date: 1/31/2023
Active | In stock
|
|
|
| |
| |
|
FORMAT: Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 120 pgs / 15 b&w.
LIST PRICE: U.S. $13.95
LIST PRICE: CANADA $19
GBP £11.00
ISBN: 9781939663795
PUBLISHER: Wakefield Press
AVAILABLE: 8/24/2021
DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P.
RETAILER DISC: TRADE
PUBLISHING STATUS: Active
AVAILABILITY: In stock
TERRITORY: WORLD | D.A.P. CATALOG: FALL 2021 Page 82 | PRESS INQUIRIES
Tel: (212) 627-1999 ext 217
Fax: (212) 627-9484
Email Press Inquiries: publicity@dapinc.com | TRADE RESALE ORDERS
D.A.P. | DISTRIBUTED ART PUBLISHERS
Tel: (212) 627-1999
Fax: (212) 627-9484
Customer Service: (800) 338-2665
Email Trade Sales: orders@dapinc.com |
| Principles of Cerebral Mechanics Published by Wakefield Press.
By Charles Cros. Introduction and translation by Doug Skinner. A visionary treatise on perception from the extraordinary polymath Charles Cros—poet, friend to Rimbaud and Verlaine, and inventor of color photography and the phonograph Establishing the author’s standing as the inventeur maudit of his time, Principles of Cerebral Mechanics was first presented to the Academy of Sciences in 1872, but was not published until 1879, and then only in fragmentary form. Setting out to understand the mechanics of perception—the organs of which at the time were too small and inaccessible to be studied directly—Cros instead attempted to reverse-engineer the sensory organs. Whereas his previous inventions in the realms of audio recording and color photography had focused on technology for the senses, with this ambitious essay Cros turned to conceptualizing the technology of the senses themselves: rather than the transmission of color to the retina, here he instead attempted to conceive of how color was transmitted from the retina to the brain. By approaching the human brain as a “mechanism of registration,” Cros’ essay can be set alongside the groundbreaking work of such revolutionary figures who transformed modern vision as Étienne-Jules Marey and Eadweard Muybridge.
Charles Cros (1842–88) was as much Renaissance man as he was poète maudit. A bohemian poet who drank with Verlaine and provided housing to Rimbaud, he also developed the comic monologue as a theatrical genre, and invented both the phonograph (which he named the “paléophone”) and color photography (though he failed to patent either before Thomas Edison or Louis Ducos du Hauron), among other such inventions as a nonmetallic battery and a musical stenographer.
| VIEW MORE ONLINE AT: https://www.artbook.com/9781939663795.html |
| | |
|
