Eric B White / Reading Machines in the Modernist Transatlantic Avant-Gardes

Description: Reading Machines in the Modernist Transatlantic: Avant-Gardes, Technology and the Everyday Author: White, Eric B. Title: Reading Machines in the Modernist Transatlantic: Avant-Gardes, Technology and the Everyday Publication: Edinburgh University Press, July 2020 Description: Hardcover. Used - Very Good / No Jacket As Issued. A revisionist account of technology's role in the aesthetics, spaces and politics of transatlantic avant-gardes Explores of a range of key avant-garde formations in the modernist transatlantic period, from the Italian futurists and English Vorticists to the Dada-surrealist and post-Harlem Renaissance African American experimentalists Explores writers' and artists' inventions as well as their texts, and involves them directly in the messy transductions of technology in culture Draws on previously unknown photos, manuscripts and other evidence that reveals the untold story of Bob and Rose Brown's 'reading machine' - a cross-disciplinary, meta-formational, and transnational project that proposed to transform the everyday act of reading Reading Machines in the Modernist Transatlantic provides a new account of aesthetic and technological innovation, from the Machine Age to the Information Age. Drawing on a wealth of archival discoveries, it argues that modernist avant-gardes used technology not only as a means of analysing culture, but as a way of feeding back into it. As well as uncovering a new invention by Mina Loy, the untold story of Bob Brown's 'reading machine' and the radical technicities of African American experimentalists including Gwendolyn Bennett and Ralph Ellison, the book places avant-gardes at the centre of innovation across a variety of fields. From dazzle camouflage to microfilm, and from rail networks to broadcast systems, White explores how vanguardists harnessed socio-technics to provoke social change. . Very good all round. Appears unread. Seller ID: 254937 Subject: Art & Architecture Atlanta's only in-town, full-service bookstore since 1989. For more than three decades, A Cappella Books has been serving the Atlanta community with our unique selection of new, used, and antiquarian titles. Together with a wide range of partners across Atlanta, we bring great authors to the city all year long for book signings and literary events, and our signed titles garner us customers from all around the world. From our humble beginnings in Little Five Points to our cozy current shop in Inman Park, we're always in the business of buying, selling, and trading used books. All orders ship within two business days. Standard mail is USPS Media Mail.This listing was created by Bibliopolis.

Price: 94 USD

Location: Atlanta, Georgia

End Time: 2023-12-31T01:50:16.000Z

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