Title After the machine : visual arts and the erasing of cultural boundaries / by Miles Orvell

Published Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 1995

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Description xix, 200 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Contents 1. The Artist Looks at the Machine: Whitman, Sheeler, and American Modernism -- 2. The Camera and the Magic of Self-transformation in Buster Keaton -- 3. Lewis Hine and the Art of the Commonplace -- 4. Don't Think of It as Art: The Legacy of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men -- 5. Weegee's Voyeurism and the Mastery of Urban Disorder -- 6. Documentary and the Seductions of Beauty: Salgado's Workers -- 7. Documentary Film and the Power of Interrogation: Kopple's American Dream and Moore's Roger and Me -- 8. Writing Posthistorically: Krazy Kat, Maus, and the Contemporary Fiction Cartoon -- 9. Understanding Disneyland: American Mass Culture and the European Gaze -- 10. Technology, the Imagination, Virtual Reality, and What's Left of Society Notes Includes index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Art and technology -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Art and technology -- United States -- 20th century. Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Popular culture -- United States -- 20th century. SUBJECT United States -- Civilization -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139942 LC no. 95015919 ISBN 0878057544 (cloth : alk. paper) 0878057552 (paperback: alk. paper)

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