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This is a perceptive study of the relationship between technology and culture. Orvell discusses Whitman and his world, then considers material culture, photography, and literature. Among the cultural figures discussed are writers Henry James, John Dos Passos, and James Agee; photographers Alfred Stieglitz and Margaret Bourke-White; and architect-designers Gustav Stickley and Frank Lloyd Wright. A witty essay on the significance of junk in the 1930s concludes the book.
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Stippled with descriptive insights that will reward any reader interested in the . . . debate between copying and creating the 'real thing."Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography"
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- ISBN 10 1469615371
- ISBN 13 9781469615370
- BindingPaperback
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