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Article: 'Machine Age' rises in Hirshhorn exhibit.(ARTS)(ART)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- March 30, 2002
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Byline: Joanna Shaw-Eagle, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The exhibit "Metropolis in the Machine Age" at the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden tackles what seems to be a straightforward subject: the influence of architecture on avant-garde artists of the second decade of the 1900s through the 1930s.
Yet tracing relationships between different kinds of visual arts in any period is difficult. With modernism, the challenge is especially formidable because of the complexity of the interconnections.
Consider the art of American precisionist Louis Lozowick (1892 to 1973), who receives a kind of miniretrospective in this show. (Museum founder ...