Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Art and Auctions
Author: Art & Auction
Author: The Connoisseur
Author: Technics and Civilization
Author: Lewis MumfordPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226550273
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Technics and Civilization first presented its compelling history of the machine and critical study of its effects on civilization in 1934—before television, the personal computer, and the Internet even appeared on our periphery. Drawing upon art, science, philosophy, and the history of culture, Lewis Mumford explained the origin of the machine age and traced its social results, asserting that the development of modern technology had its roots in the Middle Ages rather than the Industrial Revolution. Mumford sagely argued that it was the moral, economic, and political choices we made, not the machines that we used, that determined our then industrially driven economy. Equal parts powerful history and polemic criticism, Technics and Civilization was the first comprehensive attempt in English to portray the development of the machine age over the last thousand years—and to predict the pull the technological still holds over us today. “The questions posed in the first paragraph of Technics and Civilization still deserve our attention, nearly three quarters of a century after they were written.”—Journal of Technology and Culture
The Illustrated London News
Author: Persons and Places
Author: George SantayanaSears List of Subject Headings
Author: Minnie Earl SearsPublisher: H. W. Wilson
ISBN: 9780824209209
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 854
Book Description
Provides a list of subject headings for use in smaller libraries.
English-Ido Dictionary
Author: Luther H. DyerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
The Australian Official Journal of Trademarks
Author: Futurism
Author: Lawrence S. RaineyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780300088755
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
In 1909, F.T. Marinetti published his incendiary Futurist Manifesto, proclaiming, “We stand on the last promontory of the centuries!!” and “There, on the earth, the earliest dawn!” Intent on delivering Italy from “its fetid cancer of professors, archaeologists, tour guides, and antiquarians,” the Futurists imagined that art, architecture, literature, and music would function like a machine, transforming the world rather than merely reflecting it. But within a decade, Futurism's utopian ambitions were being wedded to Fascist politics, an alliance that would tragically mar its reputation in the century to follow. Published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the founding of Futurism, this is the most complete anthology of Futurist manifestos, poems, plays, and images ever to bepublished in English, spanning from 1909 to 1944. Now, amidst another era of unprecedented technological change and cultural crisis, is a pivotal moment to reevaluate Futurism and its haunting legacy for Western civilization.