Entrée principale:

Kouwenhoven, John Atlee, 1909-1990.

Titre et auteur:

Half a truth is better than none : some unsystematic conjectures about art, disorder, and American experience / John A. Kouwenhoven.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1982.

Description:

xiii, 248 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Errata slip inserted.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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a footnote to the unwritten history of America's response to technology -- Living in a snapshot world -- Photographs as historical documents -- Design and chaos: the American distrust of art.

ISBN:

0226451550
9780226451558

Sujet:

Popular culture United States.
Culture populaire États-Unis.
Popular culture
Kultur
Zivilisation
Aufsatzsammlung
United States
USA
United States Civilization

Classification/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 93291
Cote: 0004982 11101 A1936; ID:86-B18451
Statut: Disponible