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Art and the industrial revolution.(Light! The Industrial Age 1750-1900, Art and Science, Technology and Society exhibition, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA)(Brief Article)
Today's minute-by-minute advances in science and technology, overwhelming though they may seem, have their antecedent in the industrial revolution, when inventions also changed the way people lived with astonishing rapidity. A fascinating exhibition devoted to that earlier revolutionary time has been organized by the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. It is entitled Light! The Industrial Age 1750-1900, Art and Science, Technology and Society. The show unites more than three hundred scientific and historical objects, among them: microscopes, astronomical and navigational instruments, candelabra, kerosene and oil lamps, gaslights, electric lights, popular scientific texts, housekeeping manuals, trade catalogues, projection lanterns, kaleidoscopes, and X rays, with paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, and films by the leading artists active in Europe, England, and the United States at the time. The show is on view at the Carnegie Museum through July 29. It is underwritten by Bayer Corporation and PNC Financial Services Group.
The exhibition focuses on the way in which light and advances in artificial illumination affected painters of the period. In the words of Andreas ...
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