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The Fifties was a decade of contrasts for photography. With Life and Vogue in their heyday, Aperture magazine emerged as an aesthetic vehicle for photographers. The Family of Man-exhibition led to a wide acceptance of photography as an art form, yet New York City's Photo League was placed on the attorney general's list of subversive organizations. Helen Gee has captured the contrasts of that era : frivolity versus social anxiety, documentary versus abstract approach, optimism versus pessimism. The work of 31 photographers represented here reflects a wide diversity of imagery - from the dramatic photojournalism of W. Eugene Smith to the formal abstractions of Aaron Siskind and the fashion photography of Irving Penn.

77 <73> --- 77 <73> Fotografie--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Fotografie--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA

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Beaux-arts --- Fotografie --- Photographie --- Schone kunsten --- Fotografie --- Photographie --- 77 (73) "1935 : 1941 " (064)

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From the 1940s to the 1970s, visionary artists from across the Americas reimagined themes from science fiction and space travel. They mapped extraterrestrial terrain, created dystopian scenarios amid fears of nuclear annihilation, and ingeniously deployed scientific and technological subjects and motifs. This book offers a sumptuously illustrated exploration of how artists from the United States and Latin America visualized the future. Inspired variously by the "golden age" of science fiction, the Cold War, the space race, and the counterculture, these artists expressed both optimism and pessimism about humanity's prospects. "Past Futures" showcases work by more than a dozen artists, including the biomorphic cosmic spaces and hybrid alien-totemic figures painted by the Chilean artist Roberto Matta (1911--2002); the utopian "Hydrospatial City" envisioned by Argentine Gyula Kosice (1924--); and " Incidents of Mirror-Trave"l in the Yucatan, in which Robert Smithson (1938--1973) layered tropes of time travel atop Mayan ruins. The artists respond to science fiction in film and literature and the media coverage of the space race; link myths of Europeans' first encounters with the New World to contemporary space exploration; and project futures both idealized and dystopian.The book, which accompanies an exhibition at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, also includes an essay by the editor and curator mapping central themes; an exploration of how Latin American artists have depicted astronomic phenomena, utopian projects, and the modern machine; an essay on space-age art in Argentina during the 1960s; and a study of Smithson and science fiction.Essays Sarah Montross, Rodrigo Alonso, Rory O'Dea, Miguel Angel Fernandez DelgadoArtists includeRudy Ayoroa, Luis Benedit, Marcelo Bonevardi, Enrique Careaga, Enrique Castro-Cid, Vija Celmins, Carlos Colombino, Juan Downey, Fred Eversley, Mario Gallardo, Dan Graham, Nancy Graves, Raquel Forner, Peter Hutchinson, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Gyula Kosice, Roberto Matta, Emilio Renart, Robert Smithson, Michelle Stuart, Rufino Tamayo, Horacio Zabala".

77 <73> --- 77 <73> Fotografie--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Fotografie--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Exhibitions --- Art, American --- Art, Latin American --- Science fiction in art --- Space flight in art --- Science-fiction --- Mythologie --- Technologie --- Amérique

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Brevets d'invention --- Droit --- Droit. --- 347.77 <73> --- 347.77.012 <73> --- Brevets d'invention - Droit - Etats-Unis --- Brevets d'invention - Droit.

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Photography --- History. --- 77 <73> --- 77 "19" --- Fotografie--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Fotografie--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- CDL --- 77.038 --- 77 "19" Fotografie--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- 77 <73> Fotografie--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- History --- United States --- Photographie artistique. Histoire. Etats-Unis. --- Fotografie (Kunst-). Geschiedenis. Verenigde Staten. --- Photography - United States - History. --- Photographie americaine