Contraption: Rediscovering California Jewish Arists (Comtemporary Jewish Museum) - Hardcover

Pritikin, Renny

 
9783777429762: Contraption: Rediscovering California Jewish Arists (Comtemporary Jewish Museum)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 3777429767 ISBN 13: 9783777429762
Verlag: Hirmer, 2018

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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.

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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Mark Dean Johnson is professor of art at San Francisco State University, and the principal editor of Asian American Art: A History, 1850–1970. Renny Pritikin is the chief curator at the Contemporary Jewish Museum and the author, most recently, of A Quiet in Front of the Best Western. 
 

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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 catalog illuminate the humor and drama of a century on the West coast. 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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Verlag
Hirmer
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3777429767
ISBN 13 
9783777429762
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
96
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