Edison Plant (Primary Title)
Louis Lozowick, American, born Russia, 1892 - 1973 (Artist)
Skyscrapers, railroads, machines, factories, smokestacks, barges, gas tanks, cranes, automobiles, grain elevators, and bridges: the art of Louis Lozowick presents a litany of Precisionist subject matter. Although he produced several now-renowned paintings, Lozowick is best known for his lithography, a medium to which he turned in 1927 and in which he merged aspects of Cubism and Constructivism he had learned from artists Fernand Léger in Paris and El Lissitzky in Berlin. The same year, in an essay for The Machine-Age Exposition in New York, Lissitzky wrote what now sounds like a Precisionist manifesto: “The dominant trend in American art of today . . . is towards order and organization which find their outward sign and symbol in the rigid geometry of the American city: in the verticals of smoke stacks, in the parallels of it car tracks, the squares of its streets, the cubes of it factories, the arc of its bridges, the cylinders of its gas tanks.”
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