Jonathan Crary

Jonathan Crary is an American art critic and essayist. He 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). He has published critical essays for more than 30 exhibition catalogues. A dominant analytical theme in his work is the history of vision, observation and perception.