Jonathan crary olafur eliasson biography
Olafur eliasson exhibition 2024.
Jonathan Crary
American art critic
Jonathan Crary is an American art critic and essayist and is the Meyer Schapiro Professor of Modern Art and Theory at Columbia University.
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).
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He has published critical essays for more than 30 exhibition catalogues, mostly on contemporary art. His style is often classified[citation needed] as observational mixed with scientific, and a dominant theme in his work is the role of the human eye.
Biography
Crary attended high school at the Putney School in Vermont. He graduated from Columbia College, where he was an art history major.
Eliasson's art is all about nature, and more precisely about certain powerful natural phenomena of his native Iceland: wind, water, light, and fire.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 in the Visual Arts Department at the Un