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Cult of the Machine: Precisionism and American Art

Cult of the Machine: Precisionism and American Art

Cult of the Machine: Precisionism and American Art

$65.00

Acker, Emma + Sue Canterbury, Adrian Daub, Lauren Palmor
Yale University Press/ Sf Moma 2018
SKU: S01075

A fresh look at a bold and dynamic 20th-century American art style

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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.

CL/ 244 pp.