Cult of the machine : precisionism and American art
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Cult of the machine : precisionism and American art
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco・de Young , in association with Yale University Press, c2018
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Catalogue of the exhibition held at de Young, San Francisco, Mar. 24-Aug. 12, 2018; Dallas Museum of Art, Sept. 16, 2018-Jan. 6, 2019
Other statement of responsibility: Sue Canterbury, Adrian Daub, Lauren Palmor
"This exhibition is organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco"--Colophon
Bibliography: p. 232-235
Includes index
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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.
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco in association with Yale University Press
Exhibition Schedule:
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young
(03/24/18-08/12/18)
Dallas Museum of Art
(09/16/18-01/06/19)
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