Electrographic Architecture : New York Color, Las Vegas Light, and America's White Imaginary
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| Title: | Electrographic Architecture : New York Color, Las Vegas Light, and America's White Imaginary |
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| Description: | Bridging histories of technology, media studies, and aesthetics, Electrographic Architecture forges a critical narrative of the ways in which illuminated light and color have played key roles in the formation of America's white imaginary. Carolyn L. Kane charts the rise of the country's urban advertisements, light empires, and neoclassical buildings in the early twentieth century; the midcentury construction of polychromatic electrographic spectacles; and their eclipse by informatically intense, invisible algorithms at the dawn of the new millennium. Drawing on archival research, interviews, and visual analysis, Electrographic Architecture shows how the development of America's electrographic surround runs parallel to a new paradigm of power, property, and possession. |
| Authors: | Carolyn L. Kane |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | White in architecture, Lighting, Architectural and decorative--Social aspects, Lighting, Architectural and decorative--History |
| Categories: | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, ARCHITECTURE / General, ARCHITECTURE / History / General, ART / Color Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | Bridging histories of technology, media studies, and aesthetics, Electrographic Architecture forges a critical narrative of the ways in which illuminated light and color have played key roles in the formation of America's white imaginary. Carolyn L. Kane charts the rise of the country's urban advertisements, light empires, and neoclassical buildings in the early twentieth century; the midcentury construction of polychromatic electrographic spectacles; and their eclipse by informatically intense, invisible algorithms at the dawn of the new millennium. Drawing on archival research, interviews, and visual analysis, Electrographic Architecture shows how the development of America's electrographic surround runs parallel to a new paradigm of power, property, and possession. |
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| ISBN: | 9780520392595 9780520392601 9780520392618 |
