THE MACHINE [AS SEEN AT THE END OF THE MECHANICAL AGE] by K. G. Pontus Hultén

The Book with the Aluminum Embossed Screen-printed Cover - OUT-of-PRINT

1968 MoMA Futurist/ Constructivist/ Bauhaus/ Expressionist Exhibit Catalog with 218 pages and 240 black and white images

K. G. Pontus Hultén: THE MACHINE [AS SEEN AT THE END OF THE MECHANICAL AGE]. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1968. First edition. Quarto. Hinged and riveted metal sheets with embossed screen-printed cover. 218 pp. 240 black and white illustrations. The aluminum, embossed screen-printed hinged covers were printed using the same process to produce license plates. Interior unmarked and clean. Metal edges worn, rear panel scratched, spine and edges showing some mild oxidation [all as usual], but a very good copy of this classic MoMA edition. Some fading warm tone around edges, top coner has slight bend.

8.55 x 9.5 book with 218 pages and 240 black and white 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.

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