Cult of the Machine: Precisionism and American Art
New Haven / San Francisco: Yale University Press / Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco - de Young, 2018.
First Edition. Hardcover.
With a foreword by Max Hollein. Published on the occasion of exhibitions at the de Young Museum and the Dallas Museum of Art March 2018 - January 2019.
Characterized 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 raging from the urban and industrial to the pastoral. Featuring more than 100 masterworks by artists such as Charles Sheeler, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Charles Demuth, this work 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.
Four essays contextualize Precisionist art within the social and political landscape of the Machine Age 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.
Item #902692ISBN: 9780300234022
10-1/4 x 12", red cloth with silver titles, silver endpapers, 243pp, appendices, bibliography, index, illustrated with over 200 reproductions of works of art and archival photographs.
Very fine in dust wrapper and protective mylar.
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