Cult of the Machine: Precisionism and American Art, 2018, Near Fine HC

Acker, Emma, et al. San Francisco: Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, 2018. 

English, Near Fine, HC, 4to, 11 3/4" x 10 3/8", 243 pp. 

ISBN: 9780300234022

Hardcover in red cloth. Slight cocking to spine, and name in marker to title page. Very Good pictorial dust jacket, tear to head and top front tip, now in Mylar. 243 pp. Includes more than 200 black-and-white and full-color images of artwork and archival photographs. Examines the American modernist art movement, Precisionism, with masterworks by artists such as Charles Demuth and Georgia O'Keeffe, and insightful essays that touch on the evolution of art leading up to this movement, post-WWI effects, industrialization, and much more. Published in conjunction with the traveling exhibition of the same name starting at the de Young Museum in San Francisco from March 24 to August 12, 2018. Beautifully curated book that provides rich examples of precisionist artworks, from geometric cityscapes to detailed cogs in a machine.