The hidden legacy of work by California artists of Jewish ancestry
Artists’ visions of the world as a gigantic unexplained mechanism, complex, baffling and lovely.
A treasure trove of previously overlooked works by California modern and contemporary masters
29,90 €
Contraption
Rediscovering California Jewish Artists
The first book to examine the achievements of California artists of Jewish descent, "Contraption" illustrates how sixteen artists use the metaphor of the machine to understand and depict how the individual aligns his or her identity with the workings of an at times incomprehensible social system. The compelling works showcased in this catalogue illuminate the humor and drama of a century on the West coast.
description
Cartoonist Rube Goldberg became a beloved humorist at the turn of the last century by drawing enormously complicated machines to accomplish wholly unnecessary jobs. Ned Kahn, who invents machines that make visible otherwise invisible natural phenomena, is among America’s greatest artists working today in public places. Amid these towering figures are a hundred years worth of California Jewish artists, including standouts such as acclaimed ceramicist Annabeth Rosen and gizmo matriarch Bella Feldman. These artists’ works — and fourteen others — gracefully render the world as a gigantic unexplained mechanism, complex, baffling, and lovely.
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In stock
With essays by R. Gross, M. D. Johnson, R. Pritikin
96 pages, 63 colour illustrations
21,6 x 28 cm, hardcover
96 pages, 63 colour illustrations
21,6 x 28 cm, hardcover
ISBN: 978-3-7774-2976-2
Events
San Francisco
| The Contemporary Jewish Museum
Categories
Art 20th Century
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Art and Cultural History
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Sculpture
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Modern Age
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Contemporary Art
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Art 21st Century
Keywords
Contraptions, Jew, Mechanism, Apparatus, Satire, Contemporary, California, Contemporary Art, 21st Century, Sculptor
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