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----------------------------Original message---------------------------- On Tue, 1 Oct 1996, Kathryn Borowske wrote: > ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- > 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. > > Is anyone aware of a book (even an essay!) that might be good? My > database searches have yet to turn up anything really promising. > > Thank you for any suggestions. > > Kate Borowske > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Kate Borowske Bush Library > Reference Librarian/Graduate School Hamline University > [log in to unmask] 1536 Hewitt Ave. > phone: 612-641-2442 St. Paul, MN 55104 > fax: 612-641-2199 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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]