Media type: E-Book Title: The practice of light : a genealogy of visual technologies from prints to pixels Contributor: Cubitt, Sean [VerfasserIn] imprint: Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, [2014] Published in: Leonardo Extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 354 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates); illustrations (some color) Language: English ISBN: 9780262326568; 0262326566; 9780262326575; 0262326574 Keywords: Art and technology ; Visual perception ; ARTS/Art History/General ; DIGITAL HUMANITIES & NEW MEDIA/New Media History ; SOCIAL SCIENCES/Media Studies Origination: Footnote: Description: An account of Western visual technologies since the Renaissance traces a history of the increasing control of light's intrinsic excess.