After the machine : visual arts and the erasing of cultural boundaries / by Miles Orvell.

Incluye bibliografía.

The artist looks at the machine: Whitman, Sheeler, and American modernism -- The camera and the magic of self-transformation in Buster Keaton -- Lewis Hine and the art of the commonplace -- Don´t think of it as art: the legacy of Let us now praise famous men -- Weegee´s voyeurism and the mastery of urban disorder -- Documentary and the seductions of beauty: Salgado´s Workers -- Documentary film and the power of interrogation: Kopple´s American dream and Moore´s Roger and me -- Writing posthistorically: Krazy kat, Maus, and the contemporary fiction cartoon -- Understanding Disneyland: American mass culture and the European gaze -- Technology, the imagination, virtual reality, and what´s left of society.