Fascination with the machine in the inter-war period: technological spirit and lyricism in film, photography and painting
- Localización: ArTecnología: conocimiento aumentado y accesibilidad / coord. por Vinícus Andrade Pereira, Arturo Colorado Castellary, Isidro Moreno Sánchez, 2014, ISBN 978-84-697-1450-8, págs. 50-55
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
From the end of World War I to the beginning of World War II, cities lived a process of urban change and society developed an admiration for the machine. This fascination for technology would provide the art not only with new tools, but also with new concepts and themes. Traditional boundaries among film, photography and painting as separated means of expression and artistic reproduction began to fade away and language transformed till becoming technique�s best ally. This fascination translated into perplexity, producing both amazement and fear to the gear ehind the social and ethical basis of new cities� engine and paradigm of modernity. Whatever the emotions driving artists may have been, the result was the creation of a new image of the city and a technological identity that outlasted the referred period and which was established at the same time sociological concepts of mass and loss of individuality emerged.
