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‘Beautiful, plain objects like [SKF] ball bearings’: The Enigma of Aestheticizing Anonymity in ‘Machine Art’ and Modernist Logotypes
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Ezra Shales
Journal of Design History, Volume 35, Issue 4, December 2022, Pages 323–345, https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epac002
Published: 18 February 2022
... ( https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/pages/standard-publication-reuse-rights ) Abstract The SKF ball bearing on display in the 1934 ‘Machine Art’ exhibition in the Museum of Modern Art is an icon referenced throughout visual culture studies but this article recognizes its materiality, identifying the corporate...
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DESIGN is Everywhere: Elements of Design and MoMA’s Evolving Design Pedagogy
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Briley Rasmussen
Journal of Design History, Volume 35, Issue 1, March 2022, Pages 35–52, https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epaa027
Published: 19 June 2021
... modern art to the widest possible audiences, and an emphasis on the universality and unifying nature of modern art. design education exhibitions modernism museum education Museum of Modern Art, NY Wolff, Robert Jay In October 1945, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) heralded a ‘new experiment in visual...
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The Unstable Object: Glifo, Blow and Sacco at MoMA, 1972
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Ingrid Halland
Journal of Design History, Volume 33, Issue 4, December 2020, Pages 329–345, https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epz051
Published: 05 August 2020
...—that were all exhibited at Museum of Modern Art’s ground-breaking architecture and design exhibition Italy: The New Domestic Landscape in 1972. The article proposes that these early postmodern objects should not merely be considered a new stylistic development, a new aesthetics or as expressing new...
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The Modern American Home as Soft Power: Finland, MoMA and the ‘American Home 1953’ Exhibition
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Gay McDonald
Journal of Design History, Volume 23, Issue 4, December 2010, Pages 387–408, https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epq038
Published: 01 December 2010
... with the latest in American domestic appliances. In concert, Museum of Modern Art's Edgar Kaufmann, Jr., selected an artful display of American home wares, subtitled ‘American Design for Home and Decorative Use’ for the newly formed US Information Agency. 1950s art consumer products exhibition history Finland...
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Introduction: Maps, spatiality and conceptual art
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Elize Mazadiego
Published: 10 October 2023
... exhibition Spaces at the Museum of Modern Art New York, and the symposium ‘Art without Space’. These two examples are evidence of a preoccupation with art’s relationship to space, but also New York’s rather narrow notion of it. This introduction acquaints readers with new, complex conceptualisations of space...
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Introduction
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Annette Trefzer
Published: 15 April 2022
... pioneer work of photographing Mississippi when photographs first made their way into the Museum of Modern Art. It discusses the history of Welty's entire photography career. Arbus Diane Atget Eugène Brandt Bill Brassaï Cartier Bresson Henri Eggleston William Evans Walker Lange Dorothea Museum...
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Settling In
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Robert Sitton
Published: 01 April 2014
...This chapter describes how the founding of a film department at the Museum of Modern Art became Iris Barry's consuming interest after 1935. In the winter of 1934–35, Iris and Abbott conducted a survey of educators to gauge their interest in having films to show on their campuses. Over 80 percent...
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The Museum Enlists
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Robert Sitton
Published: 01 April 2014
...This chapter describes how World War II transformed the culture of the Museum of Modern Art and its Film Library. Programs and services of the Museum were placed on a wartime footing, from the film series, Britain at War , to the Edward Steichen photo exhibit, “The Road to Victory...
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Postwar Blues
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Robert Sitton
Published: 01 April 2014
... from 1935 to 1947 stood at $368,554. Clearly there was pressure for the Film Library to become more self-sufficient. Barr Margaret Barry Iris Johnson Philip post WWII World War II Flaherty Robert Disney Walt Fairbanks Douglas Film Library Griffith D W Hart William S Museum of Modern Art MoMA...
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Abbott’s Fall
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Robert Sitton
Published: 01 April 2014
...This chapter describes the deterioration of Dick Abbott's health and his position at the Museum of Modern Art. As 1947 drew to a close Abbott missed work during the last half of the year and could not keep up the pretense that he was in charge, and he was “eased out.” On December 22, 1947, he wrote...
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“If I Had to Do It Over Again”
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Allan R. Ellenberger
Published: 15 January 2018
...Although in ill health, Hopkins is convinced to attend a film retrospective of Paramount’s sixtieth anniversary at New York’s Museum of Modern Art and a showing of The Story of Temple Drake. Also that month, she gives her last interview to historian and writer John Kobal. A few...
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Published: 31 July 2020
..., capturing a range of artistic responses to his afterlives at a key moment in Irish history. Casement Roger David Easter Rising 1916 The Rising Irish Museum of Modern Art IMMA Lavery Sir John O’Toole Fintan Phelan Alan treason traitors World War I The Great War First World War Yeats W B...
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Common Creativities
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Kaira M. Cabañas
Published: 14 September 2018
... the patients’ work looked “futurist” or “surrealist.” This chapter turns to 9 Artistas de Engenho de Dentro do Rio de Janeiro, an exhibition of the creative work of nine of Dr. Nise da Silveira’s patients. The exhibition opened at the Museum of Modern Art São Paulo in 1949, one year after the museum’s founding...
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Published: 19 January 2018
...This chapter, by Nathaniel Brennan, discusses the efforts of the Museum of Modern Art Film Library to make use of captured enemy motion pictures on behalf of the federal government’s wartime intelligence programs during World War II. While the chapter presents an overview of the film library’s...
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Published: 20 November 2019
... Institute Rhode Island School of Design Rohde Gilbert designer Sakier George designer Sinel Joseph designer Society of Industrial Designers SID Vienna Weber Kem designer Chicago Harvard University Hudnut Joseph architect Institute of Design Chicago merchandising Museum of Modern Art New York...
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Corporate America and the International Style: The Transnational Network of Knoll Associates between Europe and the United States
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Jan L. Logemann
Published: 20 November 2019
... Stanton Frank manager Architectural Forum Cuba General Services Administration GSA Hood Bassett Harry banker Hine Thomas historian Interiors populuxe designs Arts Club Chicago Barr Alfred curator Kaufmann Edgar Jr curator Museum of Modern Art New York MoMA Americanization Cold War cultural...
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Published: 20 January 2022
...This chapter discusses the Andy Warhol exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art in 2015. In particular, it provides commentary on Warhol's Campbell's soup can paintings. First painted and shown in 1962, in Los Angeles, the thirty-two paintings have seldom been brought together for display...
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A zone of freedom?
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Julian Stallabrass
Published: 23 March 2006
... gay sexuality Golden Thelma homophobia Mapplethorpe Robert The Perfect Moment exhibition MOMA Museum of Modern Art New York NEA National Endowment for the Arts racism Whitney Museum of American Art beauty in contemporary art Hughes Robert Schjeldahl Peter Clinton Bill Buchloh Benjamin...
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Gender, genius, and Guerrilla Girls
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Cynthia Freeland
Published: 13 February 2003
... to think more deeply about how to interpret art. Chicago Judy Dinner Party Judy Chicago feminism Guerrilla Girls Leonardo da Vinci Mapplethorpe Robert O’Keeffe Georgia Schubert Franz sexual orientation Metropolitan Museum USA women art history Boone Mary Museum of Modern Art...
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Windows on a Broken World: Gordon Matta-Clark’s Photographs of Public Housing in New York
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Gwendolyn Owens
Published: 23 May 2019
.... Figure 7.6 Cover of The New City: Architecture and Urban Renewal (1967). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Reproduced by permission. Figure 7.7 Gordon Matta-Clark, Homeless Man Near the Brooklyn Bridge (1971). © 2015 Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark/Artists...
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