Joseph Stella, "The Brooklyn Bridge,"

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Human and machine The spiritual, the emotional in
the mechanical, the urban A New Divinity
Joseph Stella, "The Brooklyn Bridge," from "The
Voice of the City of New York Interpreted,"
1920-22. Oil and tempera on canvas. 88 x 54
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Charles Sheeler, American Landscape,1930, o/c, 24
x 31
Precisionism
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Sheeler, Ford Rouge, Michigan, Late 1920s
Criss-Crossed Conveyors, one of the most famous
industrial images of the 20th century.
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Cultural Nationalism the rural, the local, the
folk, the past
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Matthew Josepson artist and his/her
milieu Advertising as American
exceptionalism Industry, mass production,
advertising Adverts virility
The American athlete, lover of unwarlike
violence and motion is supreme
in a collection of automobile announcements. His
bronzed, handsome, genial visage
gleams unblemished in such a statement as
. (follows transcription of sports car
advert) p. 62
(See Italian Futurism, Boccione)
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Edward Alden Jewel Motley Elemental heart of
the race African forest Brutality/
Slavery Gaiety Child-like abandon
Cultural primitivism
See definition by Arthur Lovejoy, p. 63
Holger Cahill Kabotie Stereotyping Patronizing
Assimilation Appropriation No context The
whites idea about the Indian Romanticizing/patron
izing
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Search-Light Georgia OKeeffe Dark desires,
simplicity Smiles, maternal splendor Peasant,
strong hipped, esoteric Wisdom
1923
Red Canna, 1923
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Iris, 1929
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Against cultural primitivism
Aaron Douglas, Aspects of Negro Life From
Slavery Through Reconstruction, 1934, oil on
canvas, 5 x 11
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Archibald Motley, The Jockey Club, 1929, o/c