| Summary: | This volume examines contemporary images of machines. It includes a group of international artists who paint machines in powerful images which link the need for technological mastery and power to the art-making impulse itself. Works by Lawrence Gipe, Donald Sultan, Robert Moskowitz, and Mark Tansey are included.<p>In addition, the book presents the work of sculptors (Liz Larner, Rebecca Horn, and Rosemarie Trockel) who make painting machines -- technologically fluent moving structures that both display themselves as art, and duplicate processes of artistic production. These witty, provocative assemblages provide a postmodern critique directed not at society's reliance on technology but at artistic traditions of "genius" that both proscribe the use of technology and mimic its powerful effects.
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