After the machine : visual arts and the erasing of cultural boundaries /
Orvell, Miles.
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi,
1995.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The artist looks at the machine: Whitman, Sheeler, and American modernism -- The camera and the magic of self-transformation in Buster Keaton -- Lewis Hine and the art of the commonplace -- Don't think of it as art: the legacy of Let us now praise famous men -- Weegee's voyeurism and the mastery of urban disorder -- Documentary and the seductions of beauty: Salgado's Workers -- Documentary film and the power of interrogation: Kopple's American dream and Moore's Roger and me -- Writing posthistorically: Krazy kat, Maus, and the contemporary fiction cartoon -- Understanding Disneyland: American mass culture and the European gaze -- Technology, the imagination, virtual reality, and what's left of society.
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