The Art of Mechanical Reproduction: Technology and Aesthetics from Duchamp to the Digital

by Tamara Trodd

The Art of Mechanical Reproduction presents a striking new approach to how traditional art mediums--painting, sculpture, and drawing--changed in the twentieth century in response to photography, film, and other technologies. Countering the modernist view that the medium provides advanced art with "resistance" against technological pressures, Tamara Trodd argues that we should view art and its practices as imaginatively responding to the potential...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022613119X
• ISBN13: 9780226131191
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 3.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.7" x 10.1"