A picture of the book The Machine: As Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age published in New York by The Museum of Modern Art in 1968.
A picture of the book The Machine: As Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age published in New York by The Museum of Modern Art in 1968.
A picture of the book The Machine: As Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age published in New York by The Museum of Modern Art in 1968.
A picture of the book The Machine: As Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age published in New York by The Museum of Modern Art in 1968.
A picture of the book The Machine: As Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age published in New York by The Museum of Modern Art in 1968.
A picture of the book The Machine: As Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age published in New York by The Museum of Modern Art in 1968.
A picture of the book The Machine: As Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age published in New York by The Museum of Modern Art in 1968.
A picture of the book The Machine: As Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age published in New York by The Museum of Modern Art in 1968.
A picture of the book The Machine: As Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age published in New York by The Museum of Modern Art in 1968.
A picture of the book The Machine: As Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age published in New York by The Museum of Modern Art in 1968.
A picture of the book The Machine: As Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age published in New York by The Museum of Modern Art in 1968.
A picture of the book The Machine: As Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age published in New York by The Museum of Modern Art in 1968.
A picture of the book The Machine: As Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age published in New York by The Museum of Modern Art in 1968.

The Machine (1968 MoMA Aluminum Edition) — Pontus Hultén

$45.00

Offering: Hultén, K. G. Pontus. The Machine: As Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1968.

VG in the iconic stamped-aluminum covers, showing the expected surface scratching, rubbing, and edge wear endemic to the design. Interior clean and unmarked except for the gift inscription on the ffep. Binding sound with no rust (as common) with all plates and index present.

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Pontus Hultén’s The Machine remains one of MoMA’s most unforgettable catalogs — not just for the ambitious exhibition that traced humankind’s romance with machinery from Futurism through Pop, but for its radical physical design: an aluminum-plate binding manufactured in Sweden, riveted at the spine, literally embodying the mechanical age it set out to historicize. Artists range from Boccioni, Duchamp, Tatlin, and Tinguely to Man Ray, Léger, Rauschenberg, and El Lissitzky, with images that feel like the blueprint of 20th-century modernism’s obsession with speed, efficiency, and engineered possibility.

The catalog reflects Hultén’s curatorial brilliance — a synthesis of art, industry, and utopian speculation that has become increasingly collectible as the original mechanical era recedes into nostalgia. This copy carries the patina these aluminum issues inevitably develop, a material reminder of the exhibition’s thesis, and remains a complete, very good example of one of MoMA’s most iconic printed objects.

A cornerstone MoMA catalog and a landmark of exhibition-book design, increasingly sought after in any intact aluminum-bound state.

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Weight 1 lbs
Dimensions 10 × 7 × 2 in

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