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British Prints from the Machine Age Clifford S. Ackley

British Prints from the Machine Age By Clifford S. Ackley

British Prints from the Machine Age by Clifford S. Ackley


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Accompanying the exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this catalogue examines the impact of Futurism and Cubism on British modernist printmaking from the beginning of World War I to the beginning of World War II.

British Prints from the Machine Age Summary

British Prints from the Machine Age: Rhythms of Modern Life 1914-1939 by Clifford S. Ackley

Published to accompany the exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this catalogue examines the impact of Futurism and Cubism on British modernist printmaking from the beginning of World War I to the beginning of World War II. Imagery ranges from powerful artistic impressions of the first fully mechanized war, to radical geometric abstractions, to the colourful, streamlined jazz age images of speed, sport and diversion which the Grosvenor School artists created in order to introduce a broader public to modern art and design. Interest in this era is peaking among collectors, curators and art historians and this is an ideal moment to introduce these innovative British printmakers to a wider public.

British Prints from the Machine Age Reviews

'Exhilarating' - RA Magazine
'A joy to browse' - World of Interiors

About Clifford S. Ackley

Clifford Ackley is Senior Curator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Table of Contents

Director's Foreword * Preface by Stephen Coppel, British Museum Introduction by Clifford Ackley * 1. World War I * 2. Vorticism and Abstraction * 3. Urban Life/Urban Dynamism * 4. Speed and Movement 5. Sports * 6. Industry and Labour * 7. Entertainment, Music, Leisure * 8. Natural Forces * Appendix: Illustrated essay on technical aspects of linocut technique, by Stephanie Lussier and Rachel Mustalish

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GOR003419883
9780500288375
0500288372
British Prints from the Machine Age: Rhythms of Modern Life 1914-1939 by Clifford S. Ackley
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Thames & Hudson Ltd
20090824
224
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