Flesh and Metal: Body and Machine in Early 20th-Century Art
Co-organized by the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), Flesh and Metal: Body and Machine in Early 20th-Century Art presents more than 70 artworks that explore a central dynamic of art making in Europe and the Americas between the 1910s and the early 1950s. On view from November 13, 2013 to March 16, 2014 at the Cantor Arts Center, the exhibition includes a rich group of paintings, sculptures, photographs, drawings, prints, and illustrated books from the collection of SFMOMA. Taken together, the works offer a fresh view of how artists negotiated the terrain between the mechanical and the bodily鈥攖wo oppositional yet inextricably bound forces鈥攖o produce a wide range of imagery responding to the complexity of modern experience.
Featured artists include Margaret Bourke-White, Constantin Brancusi, Giorgio de Chirico, Salvador Dal铆, Marcel Duchamp, Germaine Krull, Fernand L茅ger, Wyndham Lewis, L谩szl贸 Moholy-Nagy, Piet Mondrian, Man Ray, Alexander Rodchenko, and Charles Sheeler, among others.
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Co-organized by the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), Flesh and Metal: Body and Machine in Early 20th-Century Art presents more than 70 artworks that explore a central dynamic of art making in Europe and the Americas between the 1910s and the early 1950s. On view from November 13, 2013 to March 16, 2014 at the Cantor Arts Center, the exhibition includes a rich group of paintings, sculptures, photographs, drawings, prints, and illustrated books from the collection of SFMOMA. Taken together, the works offer a fresh view of how artists negotiated the terrain between the mechanical and the bodily鈥攖wo oppositional yet inextricably bound forces鈥攖o produce a wide range of imagery responding to the complexity of modern experience.
Featured artists include Margaret Bourke-White, Constantin Brancusi, Giorgio de Chirico, Salvador Dal铆, Marcel Duchamp, Germaine Krull, Fernand L茅ger, Wyndham Lewis, L谩szl贸 Moholy-Nagy, Piet Mondrian, Man Ray, Alexander Rodchenko, and Charles Sheeler, among others.
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