Charles Sheeler by Mark Rawlinson

Charles Sheeler by Mark Rawlinson

Charles Sheeler was the stark poet of the machine age. Photographer of the Ford Motor Company and founder of the painting movement Precisionism, he is remembered as a promoter of - and apologist for - the industrialised capitalist ethic. This major new rethink of one of the key figures of American modernism argues that Sheeler's true relationship to progress was in fact highly negative, his 'precisionism' both skewed and imprecise. Covering the entire oeuvre from photography to painting and drawing attention to the inconsistencies, curiosities and 'puzzles' embedded in Sheeler's work, Rawlinson reveals a profound critique of the processes of rationalisation and the conditions of modernity. The book argues finally for a re-evaluation of Sheeler's often dismissed late work which, it suggests, may only be understood through a radical shift in our understanding of the work of this prominent figure.

MARK RAWLINSON is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at Leicester University, UK. He works on nineteenth and twentieth-century literature, especially poetry and narrative fiction, with special interests in the literature of war. He is the author of British Writing of the Second World War (Clarendon Press, 2000), 'the most authoritative study so far of the culture of the second world war' (THES).

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ISBN 13	9781850439028
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Title	Charles Sheeler
Author	Mark Rawlinson
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published	2007-12-22
Number of pages	226
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