Sharon Corwin
Biographic Data
| ID | 1636124 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sharon Corwin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sharon |
| FAMILY NAME | Corwin |
| SIGNATURE | CORWIN S |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Picturing Efficiency
In the early decades of the twentieth century, the pursuit of efficiency came to dominate instances of industrial and artistic production: the engineering consultants Frank and Lillian Gilbreth attempted to visualize a language of minimal waste, while Precisionist art achieved its own aesthetic of efficiency. This essay examines the Precisionist project alongside the discourses of the rationalized factory and suggests a relationship between the f…
Eyewitnessing
As we enter an increasingly digital age, the ease with which images can be manipulated and fabricated is becoming all the more apparent. Yet questions concerning the veracity of images are neither new nor specific to digital media. As Peter Burke illustrates in Eyewitnessing, images have a long tradition of distorting the facts. Of what use, then, are images to scholars of history? What types of historical evidence do images provide? Burke sets o…
Picturing Efficiency
In the early decades of the twentieth century, the pursuit of efficiency came to dominate instances of industrial and artistic production: the engineering consultants Frank and Lillian Gilbreth attempted to visualize a language of minimal waste, while Precisionist art achieved its own aesthetic of efficiency. This essay examines the Precisionist project alongside the discourses of the rationalized factory and suggests a relationship between the f…
Eyewitnessing
As we enter an increasingly digital age, the ease with which images can be manipulated and fabricated is becoming all the more apparent. Yet questions concerning the veracity of images are neither new nor specific to digital media. As Peter Burke illustrates in Eyewitnessing, images have a long tradition of distorting the facts. Of what use, then, are images to scholars of history? What types of historical evidence do images provide? Burke sets o…
Picturing Efficiency
In the early decades of the twentieth century, the pursuit of efficiency came to dominate instances of industrial and artistic production: the engineering consultants Frank and Lillian Gilbreth attempted to visualize a language of minimal waste, while Precisionist art achieved its own aesthetic of efficiency. This essay examines the Precisionist project alongside the discourses of the rationalized factory and suggests a relationship between the f…
Computer Science (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Photography and Visual Culture (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Art, Technology, and Culture (1 work) · Economics (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work) · History (1 work) · Law (1 work)