A Transatlantic Aesthetic
As total art objects and pinnacles of technological prowess, liners radically transformed the aesthetic imagination of the interwar era.
Their impressive streamlined silhouettes and complex machinery attracted the admiration of avant-garde artists, who replicated them obsessively. Transatlantic crossings blurred the boundaries of time and place, becoming a space where anything was possible, often representing an entirely new existential and cosmopolitan experience for artists.
Credits:
- Charles Demuth, Paquebot Paris, 1921-1922. Huile sur toile. Columbus, Columbus Museum of Art © Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio: Gift of Ferdinand Howald
25 october 2024 – 23 february 2025
