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Drawing
Aeroplane, Image Thrown on a Screen
Louis Lozowick, 1892 - 1973
Lozowick, Louis
United States
1892 - 1973
Male
13 x 18 3/8 in. (33 x 46.6 cm)
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sheet
Graphite and black ink with white paint
Graphite and black ink with white paint
ca. 1926-1927
1926
1927
Drawing
Lozowick’s style, Precisionism, was practiced by many American artists between the wars. Although it was not a unified artistic movement, Precisionist artists did share an interest in technological themes and a style that celebrated the precise lines and formal beauty of machines. As a proponent of the industrial aesthetic, Louis Lozowick was involved in organizing the widely-influential 1927 <em>Machine-Age Exposition</em> in New York City. This groundbreaking exhibition included machines and machine parts alongside paintings, sculptures, and drawings by avant-garde artists.
This drawing was likely related to Lozowick’s set design for a 1926 production of George Kaiser’s play <em>Gas</em>, about the dehumanization and need for spiritual regeneration caused by industrialization. Lozowick constructed wooden structures of his machine ornaments and projected the images onto screens to create a mechanically-themed set design.
[label text for <em>Modern Icon: The Machine As Subject in American Art</em> exhibition, February 3 – March 6, 2012]
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2004.1
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Memorial Art Gallery
12/2/2003
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2004.1DI#2
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11/18/2011
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