Half a truth is better than none
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Half a truth is better than none
some unsystematic conjectures about art, disorder, and American experience
by John Atlee Kouwenhoven
Published
1982
by
University of Chicago Press
in
Chicago
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Written in English.
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Table of Contents
| A preliminary note on the lay of the land | ||
| American culture: words or things? | ||
| The trouble with translation | ||
| Urban dispair 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| Photographs as historical documents | ||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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Errata slip inserted.
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