Contemporary American Industrial Art, 1934
Author : Herbert E. Winlock
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Page : 32 pages
File Size : 33,75 MB
Release : 1934
Category : Industrial design
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Author : Herbert E. Winlock
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Page : 32 pages
File Size : 33,75 MB
Release : 1934
Category : Industrial design
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Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
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Page : 1 pages
File Size : 17,63 MB
Release : 1934
Category : Architectural design
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Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
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Page : 32 pages
File Size : 13,92 MB
Release : 19??
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Author : Jennifer Jane Marshall
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 10,95 MB
Release : 2019-01-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 0226507173
In 1934, New York’s Museum of Modern Art staged a major exhibition of ball bearings, airplane propellers, pots and pans, cocktail tumblers, petri dishes, protractors, and other machine parts and products. The exhibition, titled Machine Art, explored these ordinary objects as works of modern art, teaching museumgoers about the nature of beauty and value in the era of mass production. Telling the story of this extraordinarily popular but controversial show, Jennifer Jane Marshall examines its history and the relationship between the museum’s director, Alfred H. Barr Jr., and its curator, Philip Johnson, who oversaw it. She situates the show within the tumultuous climate of the interwar period and the Great Depression, considering how these unadorned objects served as a response to timely debates over photography, abstract art, the end of the American gold standard, and John Dewey’s insight that how a person experiences things depends on the context in which they are encountered. An engaging investigation of interwar American modernism, Machine Art, 1934 reveals how even simple things can serve as a defense against uncertainty.
Author : Sidney Lawrence
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Page : 78 pages
File Size : 43,78 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Design
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Author : Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
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Page : 128 pages
File Size : 16,14 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Art
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Page : pages
File Size : 47,83 MB
Release : 1931
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Author : Dale T. Johnson
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 39,74 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Portrait miniatures
ISBN : 0870995987
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
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Page : 47 pages
File Size : 10,95 MB
Release : 1940
Category : Industrial design
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Author : Kristina Wilson
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Page : 264 pages
File Size : 20,56 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Architecture
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The Modern Eye explores the origins and development of early 20th-century modernism in America through the lens of the major exhibitions that introduced this art to the general public. Author Kristina Wilson shows how modern artists and curators sought to relate high art to mass culture in order to make it accessible to more people, and successfully popularized modern painting and design during the interwar years. A major contribution to our understanding of the origins of modernism, this book captures the vibrant diversity that the term "modern art" meant at this time. The chapters examine exhibitions held in New York in the 1920s and 1930s, including those organized by Alfred Stieglitz, the Little Review, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art. In examining the marketing of modernism, Wilson reveals how these exhibitions attempted to stage an intersection between art and everyday life, and how they taught viewers to look at, and care about, modern art.