Word: metropolises
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The show steers a didactic course through the recurrent images of jazz-age dreaming. Maria, the famous she-robot in Fritz Lang's 1927 film Metropolis, mother of a whole brood of automatons down to George Lucas' See Threepio, was not alone: her brothers were the machine men of Dadaism...
Allied to this was the city as tomb, both futuristic and archaic, a kind of Mayan ruin referring only to itself, incomprehensible to its antlike inhabitants. This left its most startling images in the expressionist cinema and in the sublime renderings of the American architect Hugh Ferriss, the Piranesi of...
"Age of the Metropolis" does not pretend to cover every kind of image made by artists and craftsmen in the '20s. Its focus is the city, and that alone -- so that although it includes Fernand Leger's The Mechanic, 1920, the arcadian strains in '20s French painting, Matisse and Derain...
"Metropolis" represents the populist side of the "new" art history, which looks at works of art mainly in their relation to ideology, social events and the culture at large, without drawing strict hierarchical distinctions between "high" and "low" art. The advantage of this stance is . that it enables you to...
This illusion, largely abandoned by European intellectuals, remains dogma in American academe, and one quails to think what torrents of Marxist catalog cant might have drowned this exhibition if it had been done in the U.S. But there is little jargon in the catalog of "Age of the Metropolis" and...