Lee Love on tue 29 jun 04
Kathy Forer wrote:
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> artistic impulses and achievements. His repeated insistence that
> technological development take the Human as its measure."
Art and Technics
Lewis Mumford With a new introduction by Casey Nelson Blake
> http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/catalog/data/023112/0231121059.HTM
Kathy, Thanks for this link I have not read Mumford, but have come
to the same understanding.. Here is a quote from the web page about
Mumford's thought:
> Mumford contends that modern manīs overemphasis on technics has
> contributed to the depersonalization and emptiness of much of
> twentieth-century life. He issues a call for a renewed respect for
> artistic impulses and achievements. His repeated insistence that
> technological development take the Human as its measure -as well as
> his impassioned plea for humanity to make the most of its "splendid
> potentialities and promise" and reverse its progress toward anomie and
> destruction -is ever more relevant as the new century dawns.
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Lee in Mashiko, Japan http://mashiko.org
http://journals.fotki.com/togeika/Mashiko/ Commentary On Pottery
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