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Charles Sheeler: Across Media

Charles Brock University of California Press University of California Press
Charles Sheeler (1883-1965) is recognized as one of the founders of American modernism and one of the master photographers of the twentieth century. His work is synonymous with precisionism, a crisp, clean, hard-edged style that reconciled cubist...
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Debating American Modernism: Stieglitz, Duchamp, and the New York Avant-Garde

Debra Bricker Balken, Jay Bochner, John Covert, Jean Crotti, Stuart Davis, Marius de Zayas, Charles Demuth, Arthur Dove, Morton Schamberg, Charles Sheeler, Joseph Stella, Florine Stettheimer, John Storrs, Max Weber, Beatrice Wood, Marcel Duchamp, John Marin D.A.P./American Federation of Arts D.A.P./American Federation of Arts
When Duchamp moved from Paris to New York in 1915, he was disappointed by the predominantly nature-based abstraction he observed, publicly proclaiming that American artists were too dependent on outmoded European traditions and had overlooked their...
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Drawing on America's Past: Folk Art, Modernism, and the Index of American Design

Virginia Tuttle Clayton, Elizabeth Stillinger, Erika Doss, Deborah Chotner The University of North Carolina Press The University of North Carolina Press
This book presents watercolor renderings along with a selection of the artifacts in the Index of American Design, a visual archive of decorative, folk, and popular arts made in America from the colonial period to about 1900. Three essays explore the...
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Charles Sheeler: Modernism, Precisionism and the Borders of Abstraction

Mark Rawlinson I. B. Tauris I. B. Tauris
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...
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Charles Sheeler and Cult of the Machine (Essays in Art and Culture)

Karen Lucic Harvard University Press Harvard University Press
At the dawn of the twentieth century Henry Adams proclaimed that the machine was as central to our modem American culture as the Virgin was to medieval culture. We worshiped in our factories as our ancestors worshiped in cathedrals. In this...
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Charles Sheeler: The Photographs

Theodore E., Jr. Stebbins, Norman, Jr. Keyes New York Graphic Society New York Graphic Society
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