Catherine Bauer’s contemporary critical response to MoMA’s Machine Art exhibition, preserved in the complete May 1934 issue of The American Magazine of Art, including Creative Art, published by the American Federation of Arts as Bol. XXVII, No. 5. 8vo (7.75 × 11.25 inches ), original printed wrappers, black-and-white illustrations. Bauer’s “Machine-Made” occupies pages 267-270.
Published in the same year as her influential Modern Housing, Bauer’s four-page essay considers the relationships among machine production, handcraft, industrial styling, and art. Her appraisal offers a critical counterpoint to the museum’s elevation of industrial and utilitarian objects into objects of aesthetic contemplation, placing the exhibition within a broader discussion of design and production.
An instructive document of the immediate reception of one of MoMA’s defining early exhibitions, with particular interest for collections concerned with industrial design, architectural criticism, and Bauer’s contributions to modernist thought. Offered as the complete magazine issue. Bumping and chipping to extremities, with small closed tear to front wrapper.
Catherine Bauer’s contemporary critical response to MoMA’s Machine Art exhibition, preserved in the complete May 1934 issue of The American Magazine of Art, including Creative Art, published by the American Federation of Arts as Bol. XXVII, No. 5. 8vo (7.75 × 11.25 inches ), original printed wrappers, black-and-white illustrations. Bauer’s “Machine-Made” occupies pages 267-270.
Published in the same year as her influential Modern Housing, Bauer’s four-page essay considers the relationships among machine production, handcraft, industrial styling, and art. Her appraisal offers a critical counterpoint to the museum’s elevation of industrial and utilitarian objects into objects of aesthetic contemplation, placing the exhibition within a broader discussion of design and production.
An instructive document of the immediate reception of one of MoMA’s defining early exhibitions, with particular interest for collections concerned with industrial design, architectural criticism, and Bauer’s contributions to modernist thought. Offered as the complete magazine issue. Bumping and chipping to extremities, with small closed tear to front wrapper.
