After the machine : visual arts and the erasing of cultural boundaries

How the vision of the artist and the edges of modern culture have been changed by the environment of technology. --From publisher's description 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. By Miles Orvell. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.