Cult of the Machine: Precisionism and American Art Tapa dura -

USA: San Francisco, CA / New Haven, CT: Fine Arts Museum of SF / Yale University Press, 2018, 1st Edition, First Printing, 2018. -------------( 1st Printing of the First Edition ) ---hardcover, a Near Fine/Fine example in a lightly rubbed Near Fine/Fine dustjacket, 243 pages, profusely illustrated in colour and b&w photos and illustrations, ---"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 ranging from the urban and industrial to the pastoral. The tensions and ambivalences about industrialization expressed in works by the Precisionists are particularly fascinating and relevant to a contemporary audience in the midst of a Fourth Industrial Revolution, in which robots are replacing human labor for various… Leer más