Yet I can't bring myself to be indignant about its inventions.
After its invention (about 1440 50) by a goldsmith of Mainz, Johannes Gutenberg, it was disseminated with missionary zeal and a keen commercial sense largely by Germans and largely along the trade routes of German merchants.
The author exults in ways of knowing--in mapping, naming, archiving, enumerating, classifying; he is passionate about the scientific renaissance, its invention of tools still in use today--the museum, the globe, the telescope, the anatomy theater.
The television, which has changed only aesthetically since its invention, is about to be completely disrupted by these new interfaces.
Luker traces the debate about sex education back to its invention by the "social hygienists" of the Progressive era, but she locates the source of present-day hostilities in the sexual revolution of the 1960's, which she calls as "disorienting and historically important" as the French, American and Russian Revolutions.
Its invention in about 1782 was in work on probability.
THE ART WORLD about still-life paintings... Since its invention as an independent art form in the seventeenth century, still-life painting has had any number of masters, both major and minor, but not until our century did it become a central conduit for new pictorial ideas.
The New Yorker, June 9 , 1997P. 104 THE ART WORLD about still-life paintings... Since its invention as an independent art form in the seventeenth century, still-life painting has had any number of masters, both major and minor, but not until our century did it become a central conduit for new pictorial ideas.
He's right about the close-up, and it's a good week to talk about its inventor, D. W. Griffith, whose inventions are on view right now (literally) at MOMA, in a series of films featuring Lillian Gish, whose face is the reason for many of Griffith's greatest close-ups.
They raved about his invention.
