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The Machine: As Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age
ISABELLE H'S PICK. "An exploration of artists' changing attitudes toward technology as demonstrated in their works, published by The Museum of Modern Art in conjunction with the Museum's exhibition of the same title, directed by Mr. Hulten at the Museum of Modern Art in 1968. The title of the book reflects a crisis within technology itself, at a time when machines that imitate man's muscles are being supplanted by electronic and chemical devices that imitate the processes of the brain and nervous system. At 'the end of the mechanical age" Mr. Hulten has chosen and commented in detail on over 200 objects from Leonardo da Vinci's drawings for flying machines to recent constructions produced collaboratively by artists and engineers. He has also included two kinds of functional mechanisms. the car and the camera-- the former because it is perhaps the most typical 20th-century machine and most affects our daily lives, the latter because it is a picture-making, mechano-chemical device that has provided the basis for much of our current way of seeing the world." Museum of Modern Art. Out-of-Print. Inventory Number: 000SP1660