The Electronic Word

Democracy, Technology and the Arts

Bibliographic Data

ID10263267
AuthorsDavid Carrier
Year1995
Volume28
Issue1
Pages73
Publication date1995-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeREVIEW
Review ofThe Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology, and the Arts, Richard A Lanham, 1993
VenueLeonardo (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0024-094X • E-ISSN: 1530-9282
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/1576163
OpenAlexW2312407933
LanguageEN
References cited2

From the Publisher: The personal computer has revolutionized communication, and digitized text has introduced a radically new medium of expression. Interactive, volatile, mixing word and image, the word challenges our assumptions about the shape of culture itself. This highly acclaimed collection of Richard Lanham's witty, provocative, and engaging essays surveys the effects of text on the arts and letters. Lanham explores how text fulfills the expressive agenda of twentieth-century visual art and music, revolutionizes the curriculum, democratizes the instruments of art, and poses anew the cultural accountability of humanism itself. Persuading us with uncommon grace and power that the move from book to screen gives cause for optimism, not despair, Lanham proclaims that electronic expression has come not to destroy the Western arts but to fulfill them. The Electronic Word is also available as a Chicago Expanded Book for your Macintosh®. This hypertext edition allows readers to move freely through the text, marking pages, annotating passages, searching words and phrases, and immediately accessing annotations, which have been enhanced for this edition. In a special prefatory essay, Lanham introduces the features of this edition and gives a vividly applied critique of this dynamic new edition

Art · Democracy · Linguistics · Multimedia · Political science · Politics · The arts · Visual arts · Word (group theory) · Computer Science · Law · Media, Communication, and Education · Philosophy

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