TY - BOOK AU - Mumford,Lewis TI - Art and Technics T2 - Bampton lectures in America SN - 0231121040 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - N7445 M88 2000 U1 - 701 21 PY - 2000/// CY - New York PB - Columbia University Press KW - Art and society KW - Local KW - Art and technology KW - Art KW - Philosophy N1 - Contents: Lewis Mumford, Insurgent Introduction to Art and Technics Casey Nelson Blake vii -- Author’s Note xxxi -- Art And The Symbol 3 -- The Tool And The Object 33 -- From Handicraft To Machine Art 59 -- Standardization, Reproduction, And Choice 85 -- Symbol And Function In Architecture 111 -- Art, Technics, And Cultural Integration 136 -- N2 - Featuring a new introduction by Casey Nelson Blake, this classic text provides the essence of Mumford's views on the distinct yet interpenetrating roles of technology and the arts in modern culture. Mumford contends that modern man's overemphasis on technics has contributed to the depersonalization and emptiness of much of twentieth-century life. He issues a call for a renewed respect for artistic impulses and achievements. His repeated insistence that technological development take the Human as its measure -- as well as his impassioned plea for humanity to make the most of its "splendid potentialities and promise" and reverse its progress toward anomie and destruction -- is ever more relevant as the new century dawns ER -