American Painting Of The 19th Century: Realism, Idealism, And The American Experience, Second Edition

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Perhaps no single technology has defined the postwar world as much as the automobile. The automobile has shaped our physical landscape–our personal, geographical and atmospheric space–as well as our mental world. Since the 1960s, artist Wolf Vostell has been addressing the automobile–as design object, as modern icon, and as an invention capable of shaping and altering the world around it–in ”auto-sculptures” and performances.
documents Vostell’s career over the past 40 years, from his early, Pop-influenced work, to his auto-sculptures, auto-happenings and auto-installations, as well as object-pictures like
and his
, a proposal for a new flag that would reflect the autmobilization and mechanization of modern life.