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On Tue, 1 Oct 1996, Kathryn Borowske 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.
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> Kate Borowske
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Siegfried Giedion's "Mechanization Takes Command: A Contribution to
Anonymous History" (Oxford University Press 1948, Norton 1969) might
help.
Jenni Rodda, Curator
Visual Resources Collections
Institute of Fine Arts
1 East 78th Street
New York, NY 10021
(212) 772-5872, fax (212) 772-5807, [log in to unmask]
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