Technics and CivilizationHarcourt, Brace, 1934 - 495 pages |
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... pictures within the new frame fixed by the foreground , the horizon and the vanishing point . Perspective turned the symbolic relation of objects into a visual relation : the visual in turn became a quantitative relation . In the new ...
... pictures within the new frame fixed by the foreground , the horizon and the vanishing point . Perspective turned the symbolic relation of objects into a visual relation : the visual in turn became a quantitative relation . In the new ...
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... picture . In its first exploitation the motion picture emphasized its unique quality : the possibility of abstracting and reproducing objects in motion : the simple races and chases of the early pictures pointed the art in the right ...
... picture . In its first exploitation the motion picture emphasized its unique quality : the possibility of abstracting and reproducing objects in motion : the simple races and chases of the early pictures pointed the art in the right ...
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... picture camera ( Marly ) 1882 : Steam turbine ( De Laval ) 1883 : Dirigible balloon ( Brothers Tis- sandier ) 1883 : High speed gasoline engine ( Daimler ) 1884 : Steel - frame skyscraper ( Chicago ) 1884 : Cocaine ( Singer ) 1884 ...
... picture camera ( Marly ) 1882 : Steam turbine ( De Laval ) 1883 : Dirigible balloon ( Brothers Tis- sandier ) 1883 : High speed gasoline engine ( Daimler ) 1884 : Steel - frame skyscraper ( Chicago ) 1884 : Cocaine ( Singer ) 1884 ...
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CULTURAL PREPARATION | 9 |
AGENTS OF MECHANIZATION | 60 |
THE EOTECHNIC PHASE | 107 |
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