1st Edition
Charles Sheeler Modernism, Precisionism and the Borders of Abstraction
By Mark Rawlinson
Copyright 2007
226 Pages
by
Routledge
226 Pages
by
Routledge
226 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
Lecturer in Art History at the University of Nottingham
