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Cult of the Machine: Precisionism and American Art
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by Emma Acker, Sue Canterbury, Adrian Daub, Lauren PalmorEmma Acker
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A fresh look at a bold and dynamic 20th-century American art style 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.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780300234022 |
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Publisher: | Yale University Press |
Publication date: | 04/10/2018 |
Pages: | 244 |
Sales rank: | 985,066 |
Product dimensions: | 10.30(w) x 11.70(h) x 1.10(d) |
About the Author
Emma Acker is associate curator of American art at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Sue Canterbury is the Pauline Gill Sullivan Associate Curator of American Art at the Dallas Museum of Art. Lauren Palmor is the curatorial assistant in the American Art Department at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Adrian Daub is professor of comparative literature and German studies at Stanford University.
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