Machine art, 1934

Resource Information

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

Creator

• Marshall, Jennifer Jane

Subject

• 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

Genre

• Exhibitions
• History
• utställningar
• Exhibition catalogs

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