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02610aam a2200313Ii 4500 001 D1F20CC47E8911E893E09E1097128E48 003 SILO 005 20180703010845 008 171002t20182018xx a b 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2018935461 020 $a 9780691179698 020 $a 0691179697 035 $a (OCoLC)1004919475 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d CDX $d SILO 050 4 $a BH 082 04 $a 709.394 $2 23 100 1 $a North, Michael, $e author. 245 10 $a What is the present? / $c Michael North. 264 1 $a Princeton : $b Princeton University Press, $c [2018] 300 $a v, 209 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 8 $a A provocative new look at concepts of the present, their connection to ideas about time, and their effect on literature, art, and cultureThe problem of the present-what it is and what it means-is one that has vexed generations of thinkers and artists. Because modernity places so much value on the present, many critics argue that people today spend far too much time in the here and now-but how can we tell without first knowing what the here and now actually is? What Is the Present? takes a provocative new look at this moment in time that remains a mystery even though it is always with us.Michael North tackles puzzles that have preoccupied philosophy, neuroscience, psychology, history, and aesthetic theory and examines the complex role of the present in painting, fiction, and film. He engages with a range of thinkers, from Aristotle and Augustine to William James and Henri Bergson. He draws illuminating examples from artists such as Fra Angelico and Richard McGuire, filmmakers like D. W. Griffith and Christopher Nolan, and novelists such as Elizabeth Bowen and Willa Cather. North offers a critical analysis of previous models of the present, from the experiential present to the historical period we call the contemporary. He argues that the present is not a cosmological or experiential fact but a metaphor, a figurative relationship with the whole of time. Presenting an entirely new conception of the temporal mystery Georg Lukacs called the "unexplained instant," What Is the Present? explores how the arts have traditionally represented the present-and also how artists have offered radical alternatives to that tradition. 650 0 $a Time and art. 650 0 $a Time in art. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191217025500.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20180802013659.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D1F20CC47E8911E893E09E1097128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search