Screen LibraryCult of the machine : precisionism and American art /
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Published by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco - de Young, in association with Yale University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | San Francisco : |
| Publication Dates: | [2018] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Item Description: | Issued in connection with an exhibition held Mar. 24-Aug. 12, 2018, de Young Museum, San Francisco, California, and Sept. 16, 2018-Jan. 6, 2019, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas. |
| Carrier Form: | 243 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780300234022 0300234023 |
| Index Number: | N6512 |
| CLC: | J231(712)-28 |
| Call Number: | J231(712)-28/A182 |
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Engineers of an American art : Precisionism in the machine age / The absence of presence in the precisionist city / Confronting the colossus : two artists face the steel mill / Staying is nowhere : Precisionism and the paradox of modernity scandal of modernity / The impules for order : Precisionsim takes form -- The mechanical eye : Photography and its influence -- Machined : an aesthetic of efficiency -- Skyscraper primitives : precisionism and the city -- In the American grain : finding a past for the present -- The soul of human life : technology and modernity -- Appendices : American art, technology, and industry, 1910-1950. |