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Machine aesthetic

Scope note

Concept in 20th-century art, particularly architecture of the 1920s and 1930s, promoting virtues of machines, engineering principles and technology, and placing emphasis on clean, uncluttered forms thought to be characteristic of machines.

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

300056182

Term used for

aesthetic, machine

Created

13yrs ago

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