On Line and On Paper: Visual Representations, Visual Culture, and Computer Graphics in Design Engineering

by Kathryn Henderson

Book Overview

The role of representation in the production of technoscientific knowledge has become a subject of great interest in recent years. In this book, sociologist and art critic Kathryn Henderson offers a new perspective on this topic by exploring the impact of computer graphic systems on the visual culture of engineering design. Henderson shows how designers use drawings both to organize work and knowledge and to recruit and organize resources, political...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262519143
• ISBN13: 9780262519144
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher