
The Buddha in the Machine : Art, Technology, and the Meeting of East and West PDF
by Williams R. John Williams
Part of the Yale Studies in English series
Description
From the turn-of-the-century Columbian Exhibition to the latest Zen-inspired designs of Apple, Inc., R. John Williams charts the history of our embrace of Eastern ideals of beauty to counter our fear of the rise of modern technological systems. In a dazzling work of synthesis, Williams examines Asian influences on book design and department store marketing, the commercial fiction of Jack London, the poetic technique of Ezra Pound, the popularity of Charlie Chan movies, the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, and the design of the latest high-tech gadgets. Williams demonstrates how, rather than retreating from modernity, writers, artists, and inventors turned to traditional Eastern techne as a therapeutic means of living with-but never abandoning-Western technology.
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:368 pages
- Publisher:Yale University Press
- Publication Date:24/06/2014
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- ISBN:9780300206579