In Form We Trust: Neoplatonism, the Gold Standard, and theMachine ArtShow, 1934

Autor:	Jennifer J. Marshall
Rok vydání:	2008
Předmět:	History Negotiation Visual Arts and Performing Arts Modern art media_common.quotation_subject Neoplatonism Materiality (law) Great Depression Art history Art Contemporary art media_common Visual arts
Zdroj:	The Art Bulletin. 90:597-615
ISSN:	1559-6478 0004-3079
DOI:	10.1080/00043079.2008.10786415
Popis:	The Museum of Modern Art's Machine Art show (1934) displayed ordinary things as works of art. It thus provides a useful case study for investigating interwar American modernism as a negotiation between meaning and materiality: terms up for renewed debate in the midst of the Great Depression. Through Alfred H. Barr Jr.'s catalog essay and Philip Johnson's installation, Machine Art advanced a Neoplatonic model of materiality—one consistent with Johnson's undergraduate training at Harvard, modernism's pursuit of purity, and the rash of gold hoarding that spread in the United States after the American gold standard was abandoned in 1933.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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