Painting machines: industrial images and process in contemporary art
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1997
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Painting Machines pursues the Boston University Art Gallery's ongoing investigation of the machine as a visual and cultural entity with enduring meaning in the United States and abroad. It is a logical outgrowth of several recent projects at Boston University and the Art Gallery: in a series of interdisciplinary conferences and exhibitions,
the University has encouraged the intellectual exploration of twentieth-century attitudes toward technology.
For example, the "Histories of Science, Histories of Art" symposium in November 1995 was jointly
sponsored by Boston University and Harvard University, and was co-organized by Professor Caroline Jones, the curator of Painting Machines. The lectures and discussions were accompanied by an installation of transformed household machinery, Faraday's Islands, by artist Perry Haberman. In 1995 we also organized the exhibition From Icon to Irony: German and American Industrial Photography, which juxtaposed heroic photographers of 1920s industry (Margaret Bourke-White, Germaine Krull, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Charles Sheeler) with contemporary critiques of the technological world (Bernd and Hilla Becher, Joachim Brahm, Frank Gohlke, John Pfahl).
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The painting (of) machines / Caroline A. Jones -- Artist entries: Angela Bulloch, Lawrence Gipe, Rebecca Horn, Liz Larner, Robert Moskowitz, Donald Sultan, Mark Tansey, Rosemarie Trockel -- Exhibition checklist
Boston University Art Gallery October 30-December 14, 1997.
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© 1997 by Trustees of Boston University
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"The Painting (of) Machines," by Caroline A. Jones, © 1997 by Caroline A. Jones
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