Precisionism And The Machine Age. Precisionism The American version of “call to order that swept Europe after WWI Tendency to look to the future and new.

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Precisionism And The Machine Age

Precisionism The American version of “call to order that swept Europe after WWI Tendency to look to the future and new world order based on rationality and science Chose modern machinery and industrial forms as models for precision, logic, purity that they desired in society and art.

Influences Corbusier Cubism Replaced Cubist chaos, flux, illegibility with order, balance, clarity

Characteristics Executed in dry, mechanical manner Flat, hard edge planes,muted colors Simplified geometric shapes of buildings Stressed efficiency, order, calculation of modern technology Based on machine and architectural imagery

Philosophy Reverence for industrial subjects Correlation of industry and religion Equation of America with machine and technology Exultation of the machine/industry Utopian vision of the city Aesthetic vision of industry

Artists Charles Demuth Charles Sheeler Louis Lozowick Hugh Ferriss Howard Cook George Ault Joseph Stella Georgia O’Keefe

Demuth My Egypt, 1927 Incense of a New Church, 1921

Charles Sheeler River Rouge Plant, 1931 Classic Landscape, 1931

Sheeler Industry, 1932 Church Street, 1920

Louis Lozowick New York Pittsburg

Lozowick

Hugh Ferriss Study for Maximum Mass Permitted by the 1916 New York Zoning Law, 1922

George Ault Jane Street at Hudson And Sullivan Street in

Howard Cook Skyscraper, 1929

Joseph Stella Brooklyn Bridge, 1919; 1929

Georgia O’Keefe

Photographers Alfred Steiglitz Edward Steichen Lewis Hine Ralph Steiner Margaret Bourke-White Gerald Murphy

Steiglitz Flatiron Building

Steichen Flatiron

Margaret Bourke-White Chrysler Corporation, 1929

Bourke-White Chrysler Building

Gerald Murphy Watch

Lewis Hine Girl Worker Powerhouse Mechanic

Ralph Steiner Typewriter Power Switches

Paul Strand City Hall Wire Wheel