Assembling art: the machine and the American avant-garde

"Assembling Art gives a vivid account of American avant-garde revolution in the production of art. Challenged by unprecedented technological advancement, artists embraced college, montage, and the striking juxtaposition of incongruent materials and ideas." "By appropriating disparate...

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1. Verfasser: Zabel, Barbara Beth (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Jackson University Press of Mississippi 2004
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Zusammenfassung:"Assembling Art gives a vivid account of American avant-garde revolution in the production of art. Challenged by unprecedented technological advancement, artists embraced college, montage, and the striking juxtaposition of incongruent materials and ideas." "By appropriating disparate icons from visual and material culture - the skyscrapers of New York or the body of the black entertainer Josephine Baker or cigarette packaging - artists reconceived and revitalized the relationship between art and life. There was no particular "school" of early American moderns. The artists' approaches were diverse, ironic, and individualistic. However, one phenomenon informs much of the work produced in this era: the pervasiveness and power of machine technology." "This book focuses on the automaton, still life, portraiture, and jazz to illuminate machine-age art. Case studies of four artists' work in a range of media exemplify these." "By interweaving biography and art history and by synthesizing a wide spectrum of approaches from cultural and gender studies, Assembling Art offers provocative insights into the way this art registers tensions between genders and races, between elitist and popular cultures, and between transatlantic national cultures."--BOOK JACKET.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XXVII, 202 S.
ISBN:157806595X