Charles Sheeler :: modernism, precisionism and the borders of abstraction /

Charles Sheeler was the stark poet of the machine age. Photographer of the Ford Motor Company and founder of the painting movement Precisionism, he is remembered as a promoter of - and apologist for - the industrialised capitalist ethic. This major new rethink of one of the key figures of American m...

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1. Verfasser: Rawlinson, Mark (Mark S.)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2008.
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Zusammenfassung:Charles Sheeler was the stark poet of the machine age. Photographer of the Ford Motor Company and founder of the painting movement Precisionism, he is remembered as a promoter of - and apologist for - the industrialised capitalist ethic. This major new rethink of one of the key figures of American modernism argues that Sheeler's true relationship to progress was in fact highly negative, his 'precisionism' both skewed and imprecise. Covering the entire oeuvre from photography to painting and drawing attention to the inconsistencies, curiosities and 'puzzles' embedded in Sheeler's work, Rawlinso.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (viii, 210 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-205) and index.
ISBN:9781435691285
1435691288
9781850439011
185043901X

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