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If you want something a little broader in scope, you might want to check out
Barbara Maria Stafford. Good Looking: Essays on the Virtue of Images. (MIT,
1996) In this anthology, Stafford addresses many of the conceptual and
practical issues surrounding the fate of images in an ironically logocentric
but imagistic society.
At 14:35 10/1/96 EDT, you wrote:
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>I have a faculty member who is looking for a good book for her students on
>the subject of "art and technology." While her exact idea has been hard
>to pin down, I think she's looking for something similar to Sven Birkerts'
>*Gutenberg Elegies: The fate of reading in an electronic age*--inserting
>"art" for "reading" in the subtitle.
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>Is anyone aware of a book (even an essay!) that might be good? My
>database searches have yet to turn up anything really promising.
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>Thank you for any suggestions.
>
>Kate Borowske
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