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Facing Black Star
ISBN: 9780262047845
The Black Star Collection at The Image Centre: the expectations, challenges, and results of a decade of research in a key photo agency's print collection.
Dissonant Waves
Ernst Schoen and Experimental Sound in the 20th century
ISBN: 9781913380564
An investigation of the cultures and technologies of early radio and how a generation of cultural operators—with Schoen at the center—addressed crisis and adversity.
Making Art Work
How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture
ISBN: 9780262044257
The creative collaborations of engineers, artists, scientists, and curators over the past fifty years.
Deserting from the Culture Wars
Deserting from the Culture Wars
ISBN: 9780262539432
Artists and writers consider a tactical desertion from the “culture wars”—a refusal to be distracted, an embrace of the emancipatory understanding of culture.
Think Tank Aesthetics
Midcentury Modernism, the Cold War, and the Neoliberal Present
ISBN: 9780262043526
How the approaches and methods of think tanks—including systems theory, operational research, and cybernetics—paved the way for a peculiar genre of midcentury modernism.
Mission Moon 3-D
A New Perspective on the Space Race
ISBN: 9780262039451
The story of the lunar landing and the events that led up to it, told in text and visually stunning 3-D images.
Tales from the Embassy
Communiqués from the Guild of Transcultural Studies, 1976-1991
ISBN: 9781907222566
Vignettes of a peculiar occupation: the Guild of Transcultural Studies in the abandoned Cambodian embassy.
The Unreliable Nation
Hostile Nature and Technological Failure in the Cold War
ISBN: 9780262036511
An examination of how technological failures defined nature and national identity in Cold War Canada.
Science and Technology in the Global Cold War
Science and Technology in the Global Cold War
ISBN: 9780262526531
Investigations of how the global Cold War shaped national scientific and technological practices in fields from biomedicine to rocket science.
A Landscape History of New England
A Landscape History of New England
ISBN: 9780262525275
An examination of New England's diverse landscapes, and our varying perceptions of them, across two centuries of settlement, work, and recreation.
Facing Black Star
ISBN: 9780262047845
The Black Star Collection at The Image Centre: the expectations, challenges, and results of a decade of research in a key photo agency's print collection.
Dissonant Waves
Ernst Schoen and Experimental Sound in the 20th century
ISBN: 9781913380564
An investigation of the cultures and technologies of early radio and how a generation of cultural operators—with Schoen at the center—addressed crisis and adversity.
Making Art Work
How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture
ISBN: 9780262044257
The creative collaborations of engineers, artists, scientists, and curators over the past fifty years.
Deserting from the Culture Wars
Deserting from the Culture Wars
ISBN: 9780262539432
Artists and writers consider a tactical desertion from the “culture wars”—a refusal to be distracted, an embrace of the emancipatory understanding of culture.
Think Tank Aesthetics
Midcentury Modernism, the Cold War, and the Neoliberal Present
ISBN: 9780262043526
How the approaches and methods of think tanks—including systems theory, operational research, and cybernetics—paved the way for a peculiar genre of midcentury modernism.
Mission Moon 3-D
A New Perspective on the Space Race
ISBN: 9780262039451
The story of the lunar landing and the events that led up to it, told in text and visually stunning 3-D images.
Tales from the Embassy
Communiqués from the Guild of Transcultural Studies, 1976-1991
ISBN: 9781907222566
Vignettes of a peculiar occupation: the Guild of Transcultural Studies in the abandoned Cambodian embassy.
The Unreliable Nation
Hostile Nature and Technological Failure in the Cold War
ISBN: 9780262036511
An examination of how technological failures defined nature and national identity in Cold War Canada.
Science and Technology in the Global Cold War
Science and Technology in the Global Cold War
ISBN: 9780262526531
Investigations of how the global Cold War shaped national scientific and technological practices in fields from biomedicine to rocket science.
A Landscape History of New England
A Landscape History of New England
ISBN: 9780262525275
An examination of New England's diverse landscapes, and our varying perceptions of them, across two centuries of settlement, work, and recreation.