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Picturing Efficiency: Precisionism, Scientific Management, And The Effacement Of Labor, Sharon L. Corwin

Sharon L. Corwin

In the early decades of the twentieth century, the pursuit of efficiency came to dominate instances of industrial and artistic production: the engineering consultants Frank and Lillian Gilbreth attempted to visualize a language of minimal waste, while Precisionist art achieved its own aesthetic of efficiency. This essay examines the Precisionist project alongside the discourses of the rationalized factory and suggests a relationship between the formal economy of Precisionism and the rhetoric of scientific management. For Precisionist art and the Gilbreths' time-motion studies, the representation of efficiency ultimately entailed the elision of artist and worker as producers of labor.

The Disembodied Spirit, Bowdoin College. Museum Of Art

Museum of Art Exhibition Catalogues

Exhibition catalog: Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Sept. 25-Dec. 7, 2003; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art (Kansas City, Mo.), Mar. 5-May 23, 2004; Austin (Texas) Museum of Art, Sept. 11-Nov. 28, 2004

Includes essays by Tom Gunning and Pamela Thurschwell.

Beyond Thirst: The Dimensions Of Drink, Bowdoin College. Museum Of Art, Caitlin M. Nelson, Christine L. Paglia

Museum of Art Exhibition Catalogues

"This brochure accompanies an exhibition of the same name at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art from April 17 through June 15, 2003"--Page 2 of cover

Le Numéro Barbette: Photography And The Politics Of Embodiment In Interwar Paris, Amy Lyford

Amy Lyford

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