Half a truth is better than none : some unsystematic conjectures about art, disorder, and American experience /
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
1982.
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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- Photographs as historical documents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.