Machine Age Modernism

Prints from the Daniel Cowin Collection

Jay A. Clarke, Jonathan Black, Megan Kosinski

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English

Yale University
28 May 2015

Art & Architecture; Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960; Prints & printmaking; Exhibition catalogues & specific collections

This group of 40 prints from the exceptional Daniel Cowin Collection captures the tumultuous aesthetic and political climate of the years surrounding World Wars I and II. An essay by Jonathan Black addresses the impact of World War I on two notable British printmakers, Edward Wadsworth and C. R. W. Nevinson. A text by Jay A. Clarke delves into the linocut movement of the 1920s and ’30s, investigating how the role of style and politics impacted this movement as well as the previously unexplored position of women printmakers and the interplay between gender, craft, and decoration. Influences of Futurism, Cubism, and the short-lived but vibrant abstraction of the Vorticist movement saturate the powerful color images, which are accompanied by artist biographies. This publication illuminates the struggle of these radical printmakers as they navigated a conservative market and the harsh economic and political realities of their time.

Distributed for the Clark Art Institute

Exhibition Schedule:

Clark Art Institute

(02/28/15–05/17/15)

By: Jay A. Clarke, Jonathan Black
Contributions by: Megan Kosinski
Imprint: Yale University
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 229mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 635g
ISBN: 9780300211665
ISBN 10: 030021166X
Pages: 80
Publication Date: 28 May 2015
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jay A. Clarke is the Manton Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at the Clark Art Institute. Jonathan Black is a senior research fellow in the history of art and a member of the Visual and Material Culture Research Centre at Kingston University in London. Megan Kosinski is a curatorial assistant at the Clark Art Institute.

Reviews for Machine Age Modernism: Prints from the Daniel Cowin Collection

[This] handsome catalogue . . . provide[s] important historical context, lending a greater and more cohesive understanding to the works. --Print Quarterly