America, 1900-1920 : the formative years in industry and art -- Precisionism : a definition -- European influences and parallels -- Ambivalence about urbanization -- Charles Sheeler : precisionist painter and modern photographer -- American photography : parallels to precisionism -- Formative influences on American photography -- The California group -- Photography in the thirties -- Changes in the times
Summary
" ... documents the parallel courses followed by American painting and photography from the years just preceding World War I through the forties, a time when a new direction in American painting, identified as Precisioniwsm, was emerging."--Page 4 of cover
Notes
Catalogue of an Exhibition Scheduled to Be Held at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Other Institutions, Sept. 9, 1982-oct. 9, 1983