The art of mechanical reproduction: technology and aesthetics from Duchamp to the digital

Contents

Introduction. The art of mechanical reproduction -- Mnemotechnics -- Oil-transfer -- Investing in drawing -- Apparatus -- Camera-seeing -- Seeing machines -- The panorama device -- Collage -- Large glass/shop window -- Ball-joint, rotoreliefs, guitar -- Camera vision -- Painting shadows -- Automatic drawing -- Screening the body -- Screen memories -- Xeroxing the medium -- Working drawings -- Mapping "systems" -- Photo-plus-text -- The dialectical image -- Painting at a standstill -- Don't look now -- The stilled and moving image -- Pathos formulae -- Farewell to the machine age? -- The film machine -- Mechanical ballets -- Dean's telescope -- Film machines after film.