The emergence of precisionism as “machine art” in the United States: M. L. Schamberg and Ch. Scheeler
Abstract
The article is devoted to the history and conditions of the emergence in the United States of the direction of modernist painting, inspired by technical aesthetics. Precisionism united various American artists, whose subjects of paintings were urbanism and the attributes of the modern technogenic world. The article analyzes the work of M. L. Schamberg, who depicted machines, who became the first artist in this direction. His paintings conveyed the mentality of a pragmatic Puritan American. Ch. Schieler, who was also the author of numerous industrial photographs, continued Schamberg’s beginnings, in fact becoming the creator of the “precisionism” direction.
About the Author
V. A. Avdeyev
Institute of modern art
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Postgraduate Student
27 A, Novozavodskaya St., Moscow, 121309
References
1. Cieri M. Morton Schamberg and the Machine Aesthetic in Early Twentieth Century American. [Электронный ресурс]. URL: https://www.academia.edu/38788167/ Cieri_Morton_Schamberg_and_the_Machine_Aesthetic_in_Early_Twentieth_ Century_American_Art_Text (дата обращения: 28.12.2020).
2. Rawlinson M. Charles Sheeler’s Imprecise Precisionism [Электронный ресурс]. URL: https://www.academia.edu/25261453/Charles_Sheelers_Imprecise_ Precisionism (дата обращения: 28.12.2020).
3. Reilly E. J. Charles Sheeler: Painting the Pragmatic Personality [Электронный ресурс]. URL: https://www.academia.edu/8477724/Charles_Sheeler_Painting_the_ Pragmatic_Personality (дата обращения: 28.12.2020).
Review
For citations:
Avdeyev V.A. The emergence of precisionism as “machine art” in the United States: M. L. Schamberg and Ch. Scheeler. Bulletin of Vaganova Ballet Academy. 2021;(3):91-98. (In Russ.)
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