The Art of Mechanical Reproduction
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The Art of Mechanical Reproduction

Technology and Aesthetics from Duchamp to the Digital

Tamara Trodd

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Technology and Aesthetics from Duchamp to the Digital

Tamara Trodd

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The Art of Mechanical Reproduction presents a striking new approach to how traditional art mediums—painting, sculpture, and drawing—changed in the twentieth century in response to photography, film, and other technologies. Countering the modernist view that the medium provides advanced art with "resistance" against technological pressures, Tamara Trodd argues that we should view art and its practices as imaginatively responding to the potential that artists glimpsed in mechanical reproduction, putting art into dialogue with the commercial cultures of its time. The Art of Mechanical Reproduction weaves a rich history of the experimental networks in which artists as diverse as Paul Klee, Hans Bellmer, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Smithson, Gerhard Richter, Chris Marker, and Tacita Dean have worked, and it shows for the first time how extensively technological innovations of the moment have affected their work. Original and broad-ranging, The Art of Mechanical Reproduction challenges some of the most respected and entrenched criticism of the past several decades—and allows us to think about these artists anew.

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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Year
2015
ISBN
9780226178172
Topic
Art
Subtopic
Art General
Chapter 
One
20
that, 
in 
its 
fictive, 
illusory 
qualities, 
its 
illustrative 
scenery 
and 
titles, 
and 
the 
lurid 
glow 
of 
its 
colors, 
seems 
to 
retain 
a 
dragging 
resistance 
we 
could 
call 
“kitsch” 
to 
more 
orthodox 
modernist 
(Cubist, 
Constructivist) 
reconstructions 
of 
the 
picture 
plane.
3
“Oil-transfer” 
is 
the 
English 
translation 
of 
the 
German 
term, 
Ölpause
, 
that 
has 
been 
adopted 
by 
the 
Paul 
Klee 
Foundation 
as 
the 
uniform 
classification 
for 
these 
works 
in 
the 
catalogue 
raisonné
.
4
For 
a 
long 
time, 
no 
detailed 
account 
of 
how 
the 
oil-transfers 
were 
made 
was 
available, 
since 
Klee 
leſt 
no 
written 
account 
of 
it. 
Indeed, 
Christian 
Geelhaar 
reports 
that 
Klee 
“guarded 
the 
tech-
nique 
of 
oil-color 
drawing 
as 
a 
close 
workshop 
secret.”
5
However, 
between 
1.1
Paul 
Klee, 
Twittering 
Machine, 
1922. 
Oil-transfer 
drawing 
and 
watercolor 
on 
paper 
on 
cardboard, 
16 
× 
12 
inches 
(41 
× 
31 
cm). 
Museum 
of 
Modern 
Art, 
New 
York, 
Mrs. 
John 
D. 
Rockefeller 
Jr. 
Purchase 
Fund. 
© 2013 
MOMA, 
New 
York/SCALA, 
Florence.

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