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White Collar Boys
Elizabeth M. Olds, 1896 - 1991
Olds, Elizabeth M.
United States
1896 - 1991
Female
13 x 17 3/8 in. (33 x 44.1 cm)
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1935-1936
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1900-2000, 20th century, lithographs, men
Print
In <em>White Collar Boys</em>, Elizabeth M. Olds depicts a group of Wall Street men marching down the street with no individuation or sense of independent will. The concept of the automaton—a human/machine amalgamation—was an outgrowth of life in an industrial, urban environment in which almost all facets of life had become automated and removed from nature. In 1922, philosopher and historian Lewis Mumford wrote, “We have had the alternative of humanizing the industrial city or de-humanizing the population. So far we have de-humanized the population.”
[label text for <em>Modern Icon: The Machine As Subject in American Art</em> exhibition, February 3 – March 6, 2012]
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2001.17
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Memorial Art Gallery
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