Art and technics / Lewis Mumford ; with a new introduction by Casey Nelson Blake.

Main entry:

Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990.

Title & Author:

Art and technics / Lewis Mumford ; with a new introduction by Casey Nelson Blake.

Publication:

Description:

xxx, 162 pages ; 21 cm.

Series:

Bampton lectures in America

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Casey Nelson Blake vii -- Art and the Symbol 3 -- Tool and the Object 33 -- From Handicraft to Machine Art 59 -- Standardization, Reproduction, and Choice 85 -- Symbol and Function in Architecture 111 -- Art, Technics, and Cultural Integration 136.

Summary:

Featuring a new introduction by Casey Nelson Blake, this classic text provides the essence of Mumford's views on the distinct yet interpenetrating roles of technology and the arts in modern culture. Mumford contends that modern man's overemphasis on technics has contributed to the depersonalization and emptiness of much of twentieth-century life. He issues a call for a renewed respect for artistic impulses and achievements. His repeated insistence that technological development take the Human as its measure -- as well as his impassioned plea for humanity to make the most of its "splendid potentialities and promise" and reverse its progress toward anomie and destruction -- is ever more relevant as the new century dawns.

ISBN:

0231121040 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780231121040 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0231121059 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780231121057 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Art.
Art Philosophy.
Art and technology.
Art and society.
Art Philosophie.
Art et technologie.
Art et société.
Art et technologie 20e siècle.
Art Aspect social 20e siècle.
arts (broad discipline)
Technology.

Form/genre:

works of art.
Art.
Œuvres d'art.

Added entries:

Bampton lectures in America.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 213187
Call No.: NA44.M962.A35 2000
Status: Available

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