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    Digital Dreams: Exploring the Computer as an Art Medium
    Digital Dreams: Exploring the Computer as an Art Medium
    Digital Dreams: Exploring the Computer as an Art Medium
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    Digital Dreams: Exploring the Computer as an Art Medium

    By Harry Borgman

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    Harry Borgman's professional career has spanned many fields including graphic design, cartooning and illustration. He was art director on the Chevrolet account at Campbell - Ewald advertising agency and the Chariman of the Advertising Department at the Society of Arts and Crafts ( now the College for Creative Studies ). He has written several art technique books for Watson Guptill Publications, Dover Publications recently reprinting his book "Pen and Pencil Drawing Techniques." For many years he worked as a freelance artist in Detroit, New York and Paris, France. As a painter he works in the watercolor and acrylic mediums and is also very active as a sculptor, doing wood carvings as well as wood and metal constructions. Recently he has been experimenting with the computer medium, currently creating photomontages and collages on the computer for a proposed exhibition.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateOct 14, 2004
    ISBN9781477181324
    Digital Dreams: Exploring the Computer as an Art Medium
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    Harry Borgman

    Harry Borgman's professional career has spanned many fields including graphic design, cartooning and illustration. He was art director on the Chevrolet account at Campbell - Ewald advertising agency and the Chariman of the Advertising Department at the Society of Arts and Crafts ( now the College for Creative Studies ). He has written several art technique books for Watson Guptill Publications, Dover Publications recently reprinting his book "Pen and Pencil Drawing Techniques." For many years he worked as a freelance artist in Detroit, New York and Paris, France. As a painter he works in the watercolor and acrylic mediums and is also very active as a sculptor, doing wood carvings as well as wood and metal constructions. Recently he has been experimenting with the computer medium, currently creating photomontages and collages on the computer for a proposed exhibition.

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      Digital Dreams - Harry Borgman

      Dedicated to Gloria

      Copyright © 2004 by Harry Borgman. 535380

      Library of Congress Control Number:   2003097457

      ISBN:   Softcover   978-1-4134-3265-7

                 EBook         978-1-4771-8132-4

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      Rev. date: 05/02/2019

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      A word about

      the computer art

      of Harry Borgman

      from art critic

      Amy Sult Stevens

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      If anyone could convince me to seriously consider exploring the computer as an artistic medium, it’s Harry Borgman. It was his work, after all, that convinced me that the very notion of computer art wasn’t a load of hogwash. As a trained and sporadically practicing artist, I’ve always been in love with the nose-to-the-paper, physical act of creating. To me, this always seemed an essential part of making art that conveyed one’s presence; the thing that pressed the artist’s spiritual fingerprint into a piece of work and made it more than just a pretty object. The remote-control aspect of point-and-click technology seemed too distancing of a working method to ever express the more tangible aspects of art.

      Admittedly I was a bit of a technophobe. As a freelance art critic for the local paper throughout the 1990’s, however, I had ample opportunity to see exhibits by people in thrall of computers, and it did little

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