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