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The Art of Mechanical Reproduction
Technology and Aesthetics from Duchamp to the Digital
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The Art of Mechanical Reproduction
Technology and Aesthetics from Duchamp to the Digital
About this book
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.
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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Information
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.
Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. The Art of Mechanical Reproduction
- 1. Mnemotechnics
- 2. Seeing Machines
- 3. Camera Vision
- 4. Xeroxing the Medium
- 5. Painting at a Standstill
- 6. Farewell to the Machine Age?
- Notes
- Index