Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, November 25, 1968 - February 9, 1969. Traveled to University of St. Thomas, Houston, March 25 - May 18, 1969; San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco June 23 - August 24, 1969. Text by K.G. Pontus Hultén, curator. Hultén describes the show as a "collection of comments on technology by artists of the Western world," particularly in the modern age when "the mechanical machine - which can most easily be defined as an imitation of our muscles - is losing its dominating position among the tools of mankind; while electronic and chemical devices - which imitate the processes of the brain and the nervous system - are becoming increasingly important." Includes works by Leonardo da Vinci, Albrecht Dürer (School of), Giovanni Battista Bracelli, Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, Jacques Vaucanson, Pierre Jacquet-Droz, Kristofer Polhem, Filippo Morghen, Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, Robert Seymour, W. Read, George Cruikshank, W. L. Walton, Winslow Homer, James Boydell, Simon Ritter van Stampfer, Etienne-Jules Marey, Lumière Brothers, Eadweard Muybridge, Théodore Maurisset, Honoré Daumier, Alphonse M. A. de Neuville, Georges Méliès, Camille Lefèbvre, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Pierre Selmersheim, Lyonel Feininger, Winsor McCay, Umberto Boccioni, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Giacomo Balla, Gino Severini, Giorgio de Chirico, Jacob Epstein, Wyndham Lewis, Joseph Stella, Natalio Goncharova, Kasimir Malevich, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Robert Delaunay, Francis Picabia, Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, Man Ray, Morton Livingston Schamberg, Naum Gabo, Raoul Hausmann, Luibov Popova, Alexandra Exter, Vladimir Tatlin, El Lissitzky, George Grosz, Kurt Schwitters, Hannah Höch, Max Ernst, Paul Klee, Aleksandr Vesnin, Oskar Schlemmer, László Moholy-Nagy, Fernand Léger, Ettore Bugatti, R. Buckminster Fuller, Alexander Calder, Rube Goldberg, Charles Chaplin, Alberto Giacometti, Hans Bellmer, Victor Brauner, Matta, Mark Tobey, Bruno Munari, Jean Tinguely, Ed van der Elsken, Richard Stankiewicz, Per Olof Ultvedt, Robert Watts, Ray Farhner, Anthony Granatelli, Colin Chapman, René Magritte, Edward Kienholz, James Rosenquist, César Baldaccini, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, Billy Klüver, Konrad Klapheck, Robert Breer, Thomas Shannon, Takis Vassilakis, Hans Haacke, Marian Zazeela, La Monte Young, Nam June Paik, Jean Dupuy, Ralph Martel, Wen-Ying Tsai, Frank T. Turner, Lucy Jackson Young, Niels O. Young, Hilary Harris, James Macaulay, Lillian Schwartz, Per Biorn, Robin Parkinson, Eric Martin, John Williams Anthes, Tracy S. Kinsel, Leon D. Harmon, Kenneth C. Knowlton, Richard Fraenkel, and Jeffrey Raskin. Catalogue has painted, die-embossed covers. Includes notes section, index, and list of contributing artists. Painted metal embossed cover design by Anders Österlin, after a photograph by Alicia Legg.
