Half a truth is better than none
Subtitle: some unsystematic conjectures about art, disorder, and American experience
By: John A. Kouwenhoven.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1982
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: Popular culture -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Errata slip inserted.
Table of contents: title: A preliminary note on the lay of the land; title: American culture: words or things?; title: The trouble with translation; title: Urban dispair and the cities' hope; title: Architecture as environmental technology; title: Democracy, machines, and vernacular design; title: The Eiffel tower and the Ferris wheel; title: Who's afraid of the machine in the garden?: a footnote to the unwritten history of America's response to technology; title: Living in a snapshot world; title: Photographs as historical documents; title: Design and chaos: the American distrust of art.