Jonathan Crary

Jonathan Crary, is an art critic and essayist, and is Meyer Schapiro Professor of
Jonathan Crary
Modern Art and Theory at Columbia University in New York. His first notable
Born Jonathan Crary
works were Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the 19th
Century (1990), and Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle and Modern Occupation Writer, art critic
Culture (2000). He has published critical essays for over 30 Exhibition catalogues,
mostly on contemporary art. His style is often classified as observational mixed with scientific, and a dominant theme in his work is
the role of the human eye.

Contents
Biography
Writing
Bibliography
Notes
References
External links

Biography
Crary attended high school at the Putney School in Vermont. He graduated from Columbia College where he was an art history
major. In 1987 he received his Ph.D from Columbia as well. Crary also earned a B.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute, where
he studied film and photography.

He first taught at the Visual Arts Department atUniversity of California, San Diego. In 1989 he began teaching at Columbia.

Writing
His Suspensions of Perception focuses on the period from about 1880 to 1905, exploring the second half of the nineteenth century in
which a new way of seeing was introduced. Crary describes this shift as an emergence of subjective vision. In addition, Crary
discusses how Attention became a “new object within the modernization of subjectivity...”.[1] Crary’s book examines how the
perception of various cultures were reconstructed and uncertainties were argued. This new development of vision created controversy
because it implied that seeing was dependent upon one’s subjective thoughts, which were based on what the observer saw. Therefore,
this new way of seeing was thought of as unclear, unreliable, and always questioned among a large population of people. Suspensions
rilling Book Award.[2]
of Perception published in 2000 was the winner of the 2001 Lionel T

Crary's Techniques of the Observer gives a unique study on the origins of modern visual culture. Techniques of the Observer was
published in 1990 and translated into nine foreign languages.

Crary has also written on present day “art and culture for publications including Art in America, Artforum, October, Assemblage,
Cahiers du Cinema, Film Comment, Grey Room, Domus and Village Voice.” Crary is also a critic and wrote critical essays for more
than thirty exhibition catalogs. Crary has contributed to the Film Theory and Criticism anthology
. eds Braudy & Cohen 7th edition.
Crary was one of the founders of Zone Books in 1986, which is a press known for publications in “History, art theory, politics,
anthropology and philosophy".In addition, literature by Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, Gilles Deleuze, and others are included.
[3]
Crary was co-editor of the 1992 volumeIncorporations (Zone Books). Today Crary continues to be a co-editor of Zone Books.

Bibliography
Crary, Jonathan. 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep. London and New York: Verso, 2013. ISBN 978-
1781680933
Crary, Jonathan. Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle and Modern Culture . Cambridge (Mass.): MIT,
2000. ISBN 9780-585270821
Crary, Jonathan, and Sanford Kwinter. Incorporations. New York, NY: Zone, 1992.
Crary, Jonathan. Techniques of the Observer: on Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century . Cambridge,
Massachusetts: MIT, 1990.
Crary, Jonathan. "Origins of Modern Visual Culture | Department of Art History | Columbia University." Visual Media
Center | Columbia University in the City of New Y ork. Web. 13 Apr. 2011.
Crary, Jonathan. iDubai. Göttingen: Steidl, 2010. Photographs by Joel Sternfeld, text by Crary.
ISBN 9783865219169
Virilio, Paul, and Jonathan Crary. The Aesthetics of Disappearance. Los Angeles, CA: Semiotext, 2009.
Barth, Uta. Uta Barth: The Long Now. Gregory R. Miller & Co. (July 31, 2010)ISBN 978-0980024241

Notes
1. Crary, Jonathan (2001). Suspensions of perception : attention, spectacle, and modern culture(1. MIT Press
paperback ed.). Cambridge, Massachusetts [u.a.]: MIT Press.ISBN 0-262-53199-2.
2. Meyer Schapiro Professor of Modern Art and Theory and Director of Art Humanities, Jonathan Crary
(http://www.colu
mbia.edu/cu/arthistory/faculty/Crary.html)
3. "Zone Books Homepage"(http://www.zonebooks.org/index.html). Zonebooks.org. Retrieved 12 February 2016.

References
Barth, Uta, and Jonathan Crary. Uta Barth, The Long Now. New York: Miller, 2010. Print.
Cooke, Lynne, Karen J. Kelly, and Jonathan Crary. Robert Lehman Lectures on Contemporary Art. New o Yrk: DIA
Art Foundation, 2004. Print.
Riley, Bridget, Anne Montfort, Nadia Chalbi, Hélène Studievic, and Jonathan Crary. Bridget Riley Rétrospective:
Musée D'art Moderne De La Ville De Paris, 12 Juin-14 Septembre 2008. London: Ridinghouse, 2008. Print.
Lee, Ellen Wardwell., Jonathan Crary, and William M. Butler. Seurat at Gravelines the Last Landscapes.
Indianapolis, IN: Indianapolis Museum of Art in Cooperation with Indiana UP, 1990. Print.
Turner, J. M. W., Mark Francis, and JonathanCrary. J.M.W. Turner: the Sun Is God. Liverpool: Tate Gallery, 2000.
Print.

External links
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