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Adornian Sense
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Angular Representation
Artist's Late Work
Artist’s Late Work
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capitalist critique aesthetics
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Cubist Abstraction
Disappearing Subject
Early American Modernism
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Ford Commission
Ford Motor Company
Formal Dissonance
Gelatin Silver Print
industrial visual culture
Ivory Coast
late style analysis
Lighted House
Machine Age Aesthetic
Neue Sachlichkeit
painting movement Precisionism
Park Row Building
photographic modernity
Photographic Vision
rationalisation
River Rouge Plant
Sheeler critique of rationalisation
Sheeler's true relationship
Sheeler’s true relationship
Sweet Home
Twentieth Century American Art
Wanda Corn
White Barn
White Star Line
York Series
Product details
- ISBN 9781850439028
- Weight: 130g
- Dimensions: 150 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 20 Dec 2007
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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, Rawlinson reveals a profound critique of the processes of rationalisation and the conditions of modernity. The book argues finally for a re-evaluation of Sheeler's often dismissed late work which, it suggests, may only be understood through a radical shift in our understanding of the work of this prominent figure.
Lecturer in Art History at the University of Nottingham
