Cult of the Machine : Precisionism and American Art, March 24 - August 12, 2018
Language: English
Published by Fine Arts Museums of Sa Francisco, USA, 2018
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26 x 30cm 240pp near fine hardback exhibition catalogue in dust jacket. Characterised by highly structured, geometric compositions and lucid forms, Precisionism - a style that emerged in America in the teens and flourished during the 1920s and 1930s- reconciled realism with abstraction and wed European art movements to American subject matter to create a streamlined, machined- aesthetic with themes ranging from the urban and industrial to the pastoral. With colour plus black and white reproductions. Near fine in near fine dustjacket.
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- Title
- Cult of the Machine : Precisionism and American Art, March 24 - August 12, 2018
- Author
- Acker, Emma. Canterbury, Sue. Daub, Adrian, Palmor, Lauren
- Publisher
- Fine Arts Museums of Sa Francisco, USA
- Publication year
- 2018
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0300234023
- ISBN 13
- 9780300234022
Characterized by highly structured, geometric compositions with smooth surfaces, linear qualities, and lucid forms, Precisionism fully emerged after World War I and flourished in the 1920s and 1930s. This insightful publication, featuring more than 100 masterworks by artists such as Charles Sheeler, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Charles Demuth, sheds new light on the Precisionist aesthetic and the intellectual concerns, excitement, tensions, and ambivalences about industrialization that helped develop this important strand of early American modernism.
Essays explore the origins of the style—which reconciled realism with abstraction and adapted European art movements like Purism, Cubism, and Futurism to American subject matter—as well as its relationship to photography, and the ways in which it reflected the economic and social changes brought about by industrialization and technology in the post–World War I world. In addition to making a meaningful contribution to the resurging interest in Modernism and its revisionist narratives, this book offers copious connections between the past and our present day, poised on the verge of a fourth industrial revolution.
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