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The Electronic Word : Democracy, Technology, and the Arts

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Revolutionary digital text: redefining expression & culture.

This book could be a good read for anyone looking to understand how the digitization of text has impacted culture and the arts. Richard Lanham's collection of essays is both witty and engaging, exploring how electronic text fulfills the expressive agenda of visual art and music, revolutionizes the curriculum, democratizes the instruments of art, and poses anew the cultural accountability of humanism itself. The hypertext edition also provides an enhanced reading experience, allowing readers to move freely through the text and access annotations.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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The Electronic Word : Democracy, Technology, and the Arts

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ISBN: 9780226468853
Authors: Richard A. Lanham
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Date of Publication: 1993-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Art, Technology, Sociology
Related Topics: Art and Photography, Design, Art History, Politics, Technology
Goodreads rating: 3.77
(rated by 48 readers)

Description

The personal computer has revolutionized communication, and digitized text has introduced a radically new medium of expression. Interactive, volatile, mixing word and image, the electronic word challenges our assumptions about the shape of culture itself.This highly acclaimed collection of Richard Lanham's witty, provocative, and engaging essays surveys the effects of electronic text on the arts and letters. Lanham explores how electronic text fulfills the expressive agenda of twentieth-century visual art and music, revolutionizes the curriculum, democratizes the instruments of art, and poses anew the cultural accountability of humanism itself. Persuading us with uncommon grace and power that the move from book to screen gives cause for optimism, not despair, Lanham proclaims that "electronic expression has come not to destroy the Western arts but to fulfill them." The Electronic Word is also available as a Chicago Expanded Book for your Macintosh®. This hypertext edition allows readers to move freely through the text, marking "pages," annotating passages, searching words and phrases, and immediately accessing annotations, which have been enhanced for this edition. In a special prefatory essay, Lanham introduces the features of this electronic edition and gives a vividly applied critique of this dynamic new edition.
 

Revolutionary digital text: redefining expression & culture.

This book could be a good read for anyone looking to understand how the digitization of text has impacted culture and the arts. Richard Lanham's collection of essays is both witty and engaging, exploring how electronic text fulfills the expressive agenda of visual art and music, revolutionizes the curriculum, democratizes the instruments of art, and poses anew the cultural accountability of humanism itself. The hypertext edition also provides an enhanced reading experience, allowing readers to move freely through the text and access annotations.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.