The Machine as seen at the end of the Mechanical Age, MoMA, 1968

Iconic 1968 catalogue with embossed metal covers documenting MoMA’s important exhibition ‘The Machine as seen at the end of the Mechanical Age’, a collection of comments on technology by artists of the Western world. The catalogue includes an extensive introduction by the curator Pontus Hultén, accompanied by countless images of beautifully reproduced works by Calder, Duchamp, Kienholz, Lissitzky, Picabia, Schwitters, Tinguely and many others. Hardcover with pressed metal covers and spine designed by Anders Osetrlin embossed with a coloured image of the Museum of Modern Art after a photograph by Alicia Legg.

Price: £145
Author: K.G. Pontus Hultén
Title: The Machine as seen at the end of the Mechanical Age
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Publication date: 1968
Format: Hardcover with pressed metal covers and spine designed by Anders Österlin embossed with a coloured image of the Museum of Modern Art after a photograph by Alicia Legg.
Pages: 216
Condition: Very Good, light wear to the metal panels and spine, ownership inscription of the art historian Alastair Grieve
Provenance: From the library of Alastair Grieve
Stock Number: RB02014