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Half a truth is better than none : some unsystematic conjectures about art, disorder, and American experience
Title
Half a truth is better than none : some unsystematic conjectures about art, disorder, and American experience / John A. Kouwenhoven.
ISBN
0226451550
Published
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1982.
Physical Description
xiii, 248 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Includes index.
Errata slip inserted.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Contents
A preliminary note on the lay of the land
American culture: words or things?
The trouble with translation
Urban despair and the cities' hope
Architecture as environmental technology
Democracy, machines, and vernacular design
The Eiffel tower and the Ferris wheel
Who's afraid of the machine in the garden?: a footnote to the unwritten history of America's response to technology
Living in a snapshot world
Photographs as historical documents
Design and chaos: the American distrust of art.
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