Hultén, K G Pontus; The Machine : As Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age; New York: Museum of Modern Art 1968. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. 218 pages. Hardcover
Modern Art - 20th Century Machine Aesthetic Modernism Swedish Art - 20th Century Exhibition Catalog
Very Good/Good+ Aluminum rear cover and spine oxidized with scratching, light edge foxing, otherwise light wear; Mailer tone with soiling. Crisp hardcover three post metal binder.
"Swedish art collector and curator K. G. Pontius Hultén curated and wrote the catalogue for The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical AgeOffsite Link, an exhibition at The Museum of Modern ArtOffsite Link, New York, from November 27, 1968 to February 9, 1969. This was a landmark exhibition on the history of the machine in its relationship to art from the Renaissance to 1968; or as the editor stated, it was "a collection of comments on technology by artists of the Western world" (p. 3). The art reproduced and described in the catalogue— including much that was radical for its time—was mainly in traditional media such as prints or paintings, sculptural or mechanical, with a few electro-mechanical items, and one example of laser art. Only the last two items in the exhibition were examples of computer graphics ... The design and production of the catalogue was unusually excellent, including a very striking binding of aluminum sheeting with a stamped enamel-painted design of the MOMA building on the upper cover." - Jeremy Norman's History of Information. Crisp copy with cover wear, uncommon in its original cardboard mailer.

Very Good/Good+ Aluminum rear cover and spine oxidized with scratching, light edge foxing, otherwise light wear; Mailer tone with soiling. Crisp hardcover three post metal binder.

12 x 9 x 1 in

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