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Description: Machine Ornament. Abstraction

TitleMachine Ornament. Abstraction

Creator nameLozowick, Louis

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator roleDraftsman

Creation datec. 1925–1926

Object typeDrawing

MaterialsInk on paper

Dimensions18 9/16 x 12 in. (47.2 x 30.5 cm)

LocationYale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

http://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/33953

Accession number1941.55

SubjectsMachinery in artDecoration and ornamentInfluence (Literary, artistic, etc.)

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Catalogue (K–N)

Robert L. Herbert (Editor), Eleanor S. Apter (Editor), Elise K. Kenney (Editor)

Description: The Société Anonyme and the Dreier Bequest at Yale University: A Catalogue...

The Société Anonyme and the Dreier Bequest at Yale University: A Catalogue Raisonné

Béla Kádár was born in Budapest on 14 June 1877 ...

Author

Robert L. Herbert (Editor), Eleanor S. Apter (Editor), Elise K. Kenney (Editor)

PublisherYale University Art Gallery

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.340-495

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00158.010

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“A Big Cosmic Force”: Katherine S. Dreier and the Russian/Soviet Avant-Garde

Dickran Tashjian

The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America

International forces and circumstances seemingly worked against her, yet Katherine S. Dreier became a leading player in the presentation of Russian artists in the United States between the two world wars. Her improbable achievement is a story that has been obscured by the anomalous character of the Société Anonyme, Inc., the “Museum of Modern...

Author

Dickran Tashjian

PublisherYale University Art Gallery

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.45-73

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00159.007

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Chapter subject tags:Dreier, Katherine Sophie, 1877-1952Art, Russian--20th centuryArt--Collectors and collectingArt, ModernArt, Soviet

6. Machine Geometry

John Stuart Gordon

Description: A Modern World: American Design from the Yale University Art Gallery,...

A Modern World: American Design from the Yale University Art Gallery, 1920–1950

The machine has long been linked with modernity. During the 1920s and 1930s, artists and designers appropriated mechanistic forms to visually convey aspects of modern life. Geometric shapes became associated with mechanical precision and were applied to a range of objects, either to accentuate their functionality or simply to express an image of modernist rationality. …

Author

John Stuart Gordon

PublisherYale University Art Gallery

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.179-206

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00002.011

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Chapter subject tags:Modernism (Art)Art, AmericanGeometry in art

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