Representation and reality

摘要

It is a truism that art, by representing the world, changes the way we see it. Alexander Eisenschmidt's exploration of August Endell's eulogy of the modern city (pp. 71-79) offers a perfect example of this: 're-framed', the apparent chaos and confusion brought on by modernisation could be seen as thrilling manifestations of a dynamic new culture. Technological changes, such as the invention of photography, are increasingly bound up in such major changes in 'ways of seeing', and rarely has this been more apparent than in the transformations brought by the change from drawing-board and T-square to PC and plasma screen.