any recommendations for modernist depictions of agriculture and food production?

i've included some example images below.

some keywords:
* mechanized agriculture
* industrial farming
* industrial food production
* farm as factory
* farm modernization
* chemical agriculture
* green revolution

i've got the following materials on my to-read list:

* "every farm a factory: the industrial ideal in american agriculture" by deborah fitzgerald
* Ch. 8 of "seeing like a state": "Taming Nature: An Agriculture of Legibility and Simplicity" by james c. scott
* "Farming according to 'the laws of beauty': Aesthetics and agriculture" by david cooper (https://www.academia.edu/14380031/Farming_according_to_the_laws_of_beauty_Aesthetics_and_agriculture)
* "the american technological sublime" by david nye (not sure if it has anything about agriculture specifically)
* "the machine in the garden: technology and the pastoral" by leo marx

if you're familiar with any written works looking at this kind of aesthetic specifically, i'd love to hear about it.

also, if you have suggestions for archives (online or irl) that might have more materials like this, i'm all ears.

#sundaylibrarian #history #art #ArtHistory #agriculture #GreenRevolution #food #aesthetics #modernism #industrialization #ResearchLibrarian

any recommendations for modernist depictions of agriculture and food production?

i've included some example images below.

some keywords:
* mechanized agriculture
* industrial farming
* industrial food production
* farm as factory
* farm modernization
* chemical agriculture
* green revolution

i've got the following materials on my to-read list:

* "every farm a factory: the industrial ideal in american agriculture" by deborah fitzgerald
* Ch. 8 of "seeing like a state": "Taming Nature: An Agriculture of Legibility and Simplicity" by james c. scott
* "Farming according to 'the laws of beauty': Aesthetics and agriculture" by david cooper (https://www.academia.edu/14380031/Farming_according_to_the_laws_of_beauty_Aesthetics_and_agriculture)
* "the american technological sublime" by david nye (not sure if it has anything about agriculture specifically)
* "the machine in the garden: technology and the pastoral" by leo marx

if you're familiar with any written works looking at this kind of aesthetic specifically, i'd love to hear about it.

also, if you have suggestions for archives (online or irl) that might have more materials like this, i'm all ears.

#sundaylibrarian #history #art #ArtHistory #agriculture #GreenRevolution #food #aesthetics #modernism #industrialization #ResearchLibrarian

Light blue sky over a spring forest with newly sprouted anemones (1895) by Danish artist Peder Mørk Mønsted (1859-1941).

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/light-blue-sky-over-a-spring-forest-with-newly-sprouted-anemones-1895-peder-mork-monsted-1859-1941.html

#art #ArtHistory #spring #landscape #SilentSunday #calm #MastoArt #FediGiftShop

Light blue sky over a spring forest with newly sprouted anemones (1895) by Danish artist Peder Mørk Mønsted (1859-1941).

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/light-blue-sky-over-a-spring-forest-with-newly-sprouted-anemones-1895-peder-mork-monsted-1859-1941.html

#art #ArtHistory #spring #landscape #SilentSunday #calm #MastoArt #FediGiftShop

August 6th, 1921 cover of the Saturday Evening Post by Coles Phillips (1921), and a photograph of the artist

#art #arts #painting #paintrings #fashion #style #illustration #magazine #magazines #artlover #artlovers #artgallery #arthistory #artnet #artwork #artist #artists

August 6th, 1921 cover of the Saturday Evening Post by Coles Phillips (1921), and a photograph of the artist

#art #arts #painting #paintrings #fashion #style #illustration #magazine #magazines #artlover #artlovers #artgallery #arthistory #artnet #artwork #artist #artists

Passing off of the Storm (1872) by American landscape painter John Frederick Kensett (1816-1872).

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/passing-off-of-the-storm-1872-john-frederick-kensett-1816-1872.html

#art #ArtHistory #SilentSunday

Guernica, by Pablo Picasso 1937

Guernica to Wounded Knee, by Stan Natchez 2012; on display at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

Natchez portrays "the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890, in which hundreds of Lakota people were killed ... invoking the American flag, symbols of major gas corporations, and the first logo of the Pontiac automobile brand"

#ushistory #painting #arthistory #nativeamerican #AmericanIndian #guernica #picasso #boston #southdakota #lakota #siouxnation #antiwar

By African-American artist and educator Hilda Wilkinson Brown (1894-1981), Portrait of a Girl. I could find little specific information about this painting, nor could I find a better photo; however, it appears on the website for the short documentary film “Kindred Spirits: Artists Hilda Wilkinson Brown and Lilian Thomas Burwell.” The film explores the relationship between Brown and her niece, also an artist. #arthistory #BlackHistoryMonth #blackart #blackartist #womanartist

From Paul Richard, “Drawing on the District: The Neglected Art Of Hilda Wilkerson Brown,” The Washington Post, November 14, 1983:

“Like the finest works she left us, Hilda Brown herself was sophisticated, genteel, charming, modest, tough. In the '20s and the '30s, she was one of the few painters capable of linking this city's black community to the world of modern art.

Her best paintings are delightful. Her subjects are familiar. She painted what she saw here--the lights of Griffith Stadium, brick Victorian row houses, the streets of Le Droit Park. Her oils please at once, and after pleasing unfold slowly. They have quiet truths to give us. Hers are images that teach.

When it suited her intentions she would borrow from the moderns. She fully understood the space-declaring brushstrokes of Ce'zanne, Lyonel Feininger's light rays, and the sweet, domestic scale of the paintings at the Phillips. But her style is her own."

By African-American artist and educator Hilda Wilkinson Brown (1894-1981), Portrait of a Girl. I could find little specific information about this painting, nor could I find a better photo; however, it appears on the website for the short documentary film “Kindred Spirits: Artists Hilda Wilkinson Brown and Lilian Thomas Burwell.” The film explores the relationship between Brown and her niece, also an artist. #arthistory #BlackHistoryMonth #blackart #blackartist #womanartist

From Paul Richard, “Drawing on the District: The Neglected Art Of Hilda Wilkerson Brown,” The Washington Post, November 14, 1983:

“Like the finest works she left us, Hilda Brown herself was sophisticated, genteel, charming, modest, tough. In the '20s and the '30s, she was one of the few painters capable of linking this city's black community to the world of modern art.

Her best paintings are delightful. Her subjects are familiar. She painted what she saw here--the lights of Griffith Stadium, brick Victorian row houses, the streets of Le Droit Park. Her oils please at once, and after pleasing unfold slowly. They have quiet truths to give us. Hers are images that teach.

When it suited her intentions she would borrow from the moderns. She fully understood the space-declaring brushstrokes of Ce'zanne, Lyonel Feininger's light rays, and the sweet, domestic scale of the paintings at the Phillips. But her style is her own."

Guernica, by Pablo Picasso 1937

Guernica to Wounded Knee, by Stan Natchez 2012; on display at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

Natchez portrays "the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890, in which hundreds of Lakota people were killed ... invoking the American flag, symbols of major gas corporations, and the first logo of the Pontiac automobile brand"

#ushistory #painting #arthistory #nativeamerican #AmericanIndian #guernica #picasso #boston #southdakota #lakota #siouxnation #antiwar

Medusa by Jean Delville (1893)

@artporn

#ArtHistory #mythology #ModernArt #MuseumArchive #galleries #glam #expressionism

Medusa by Jean Delville (1893)

@artporn

#ArtHistory #mythology #ModernArt #MuseumArchive #galleries #glam #expressionism