THE MACHINE
[AS SEEN AT THE END OF THE MECHANICAL AGE]
K. G. Pontus Hulten
Hulten, K. G. Pontus: THE MACHINE [AS SEEN AT THE END OF THE MECHANICAL AGE]. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1968. First edition. A near-fine hardcover book with Aluminum, embossed screen-printed hinged covers (same process as used to produce license plates!): metal covers are very lightly scratched. Iinterior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print.8.55 x 9.5 book with 218 pages and hundreds of b/w examples of machine-inspired art. Words fail me here: this is an incredible book-as-object that encompasses artwork from the beginning of the industrail revolution through the sixties, with a focus on the artists inspiration, interaction, acceptance and rejection of the machine aesthetic.
Artists whose work was included in this landmark 1968 show and catalog include Giacomo Balla, Hans Bellmer, Umberto Boccioni, Alexander Calder, Giorgio de Chirico, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Lyone l Feininger, R. Buckminster Fuller, Naum Gabo, Alberto Giacometti. Rube Goldberg, George Grosz, Hannah Hoch, Edward kienholz, Paul Klee, Jacques henri lartige, Fernand Leger, Wyndham Lewis, El Lissitzky, Rene Magritte, Kasimir Malevich, Man Ray, Winsor McKay, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Liubov Popova, Robert Rauschenberg, Oskar Schlemmer, Kurt Schwitters, Vladimir Tatlin, and many, many others.
A very cool book.
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