The Real Thing : Imitation and Authenticity in American Culture, 1880-1940 /

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In this classic study of the relationship between technology and culture, Miles Orvell demonstrates that the roots of contemporary popular culture reach back to the Victorian era, when mechanical replications of familiar objects reigned supreme and realism dominated artistic representation. Reacting...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Orvell, Miles (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2014]
Edición:Twenty-fifth anniversary edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Photography.
Material culture.
Intellectual life.
Imitation.
Civilization.
Authenticity (Philosophy)
American literature.
HISTORY > Modern > 20th Century.
Authenticite (Philosophie)
Imitation (Psychologie)
Culture materielle > États-Unis.
Imitative Behavior
Photography > United States > History.
American literature > History and criticism.
Material culture > United States.
United States.
États-Unis > Vie intellectuelle > 20e siecle.
États-Unis > Vie intellectuelle > 1865-1918.
États-Unis > Civilisation > 1918-1945.
États-Unis > Civilisation > 1865-1918.
United States > Intellectual life > 20th century.
United States > Intellectual life > 1865-1918.
United States > Civilization > 1918-1945.
United States > Civilization > 1865-1918.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE Condition of Future Development
  • ch. 1 Whitman's Transformed Eye
  • pt. TWO Culture of Imitation
  • Introduction
  • ch. 2 Hieroglyphic World: The Furnishing of Identity in Victorian Culture
  • ch. 3 Photography and the Artifice of Realism
  • ch. 4 Romance of the Real
  • pt. THREE Inventing Authenticity
  • Introduction
  • ch. 5 Real Thing and the Machine-made World
  • ch. 6 Camera and the Verification of Fact
  • ch. 7 Not "Realism" but Reality Itself.

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