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Knight's Tour: Digital Materialism in the Work of Michael Shroads

by Michael James Shroads




Institution: University of California – Riverside
Department: Visual Art
Year: 2014
Keywords: Fine arts; Art criticism; Art history; digital; drawing; Krauss; Manovich; materialism; sculpture
Record ID: 2028633
Full text PDF: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/5bw4c7vp


Abstract

Knight's Tour: Digital Materialism in the Work of Michael Shroads consists of an in-depth analysis of the concept of materialism in visual art, ranging from seventeenth century Dutch still life to the present day as exemplified in the works of Michael Shroads. The twin concepts of convention and description are critically examined in the twilight of the analog era with the possibilities and modalities of digital materialism for the future outlined in detail.