Charles Sheeler: Modernism, Precisionism and the Borders of Abstraction

ISBN-13: 9781032220123 / Angielski / Twarda / 2025 / 226 str.

Mark Rawlinson

Opis

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.

Spis treści

1 Musing on Primitiveness 2 A Photograph, a Drawing and a Painting: Sheeler’s New York Series 3 The Disappearing Subject: Self-Portrait 4 Is it Still Life? Sheeler, Adorno and Dwelling 5 Between Commission and Autonomy: Sheeler’s River Rouge 6 Late Work/Late Style

O autorze

Lecturer in Art History at the University of Nottingham