Machine art, 1934
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The work Machine art, 1934 represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
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Machine art, 1934
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The work Machine art, 1934 represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
- Label
- Machine art, 1934
- Statement of responsibility
- Jennifer Jane Marshall
- Subject
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- Art and industry
- Art and industry -- New York (State) | New York -- History -- 20th century
- Exhibition catalogs
- History
- Industri i konsten
- Industriell formgivning -- historia
- Machinery in art
- Machinery in art -- Exhibitions
- Machinery in art -- Exhibitions
- Maskiner i konsten -- historia
- Maskinkultur i konsten -- historia
- 1900-1999
- Modernism (Art)
- Modernism (Art) -- Exhibitions -- New York
- Modernism (Art) -- New York (State) | New York -- Exhibitions
- Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
- Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) -- History
- New York (State) -- New York
- Reklamkonst -- historia -- Förenta stater | New York -- 1900-talet -- utställningar
- Modern konst -- Förenta stater | New York -- utställningar
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Cataloging source
- ICU/DLC
- Dewey number
- 700/.4112
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- N8222.M27
- LC item number
- M37 2012
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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