Fresh News (Men and Machines)
- Date
- 1965
- Material
- Acrylic and paper collage on canvas
- made in
- New York, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Paintings
- Collection
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Current Location
- On View, Gallery 246
- Dimensions
- 40 × 50 in. (101.6 × 127 cm)
- Credit Line
- Siteman Contemporary Art Fund
- Rights
- © 2020 Rosalyn Drexler / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
- Object Number
- 112:2017
NOTES
In this image, Rosalyn Drexler appropriates and abstracts a photograph of two men in suits, who supervise a new commercial printing press, the Heidelberg Rotaspeed. The picture comes from Drexler’s Men and Machines series, made during the Cold War, in which she critiqued the promises of technological progress and corporate capitalism. Her nondescript men channel anxieties about the loss of human agency in the face of industrial advances. Fresh News undermines the false confidence of post–World War II American society in economic prosperity and worldwide leadership.
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