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Art and its others 1: the aesthetics of technology
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Modernism and Technology
Technology and the Individual Talent
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Date Issued
2017-03
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Abstract
Modernism first emerges during the transformations of time and space wrought by the age of steam, and it comes to dominance against the background of the 'second industrial revolution'. This revolution, which was really more of an intensification of earlier processes, was driven by, inter alia, the exploitation of electricity and the internal combustion engine, use of early plastics (celluloid, and later bakelite), the oneiric power of the cinematograph, the sound -Â- reproduction technology of the phonograph, and the communications technologies of the telephone and later the radio. In theoretical terms one could argue that there is no space, no "and" between modernism and these technological shifts: they are bound together in a common culture. But for practical purposes we can describe a set of relations between the two.
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Book Chapter
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Cambridge University Press
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Arts and society
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English
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Peer reviewed
Part of
Sherry, V. (ed.). The Cambridge History of Modernism
ISBN
9781107034693
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