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- Redeeming the Skyscraper
- The editors of Fortune presented an image of the American skyscraper
as a monument to the country's greatness, not the symbol of business excess
that the man on the street thought it was.
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- The Onslaught of Mass Culture
- Though published in 1936, Walter Benjamin's essay "The Work of Art in the
Age of Mechanical Reproduction" continues to influence the way we perceive
the very concept of "perception." Comparing the words of Walter Benjamin
with the covers of Fortune Magazine that were published in Benjamin's era
offers a unique angle by which to view America in the 1930's.
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- The Art of Fortune Magazine
- A visual essay on abstraction and the machine in early
twentieth-century art, and on the appropriation of the machine aesthetic by Fortune magazine
illustrations as a means of asserting cultural authority.
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- Harmonizing the Machine in the Garden
- The covers of Fortune magazine portray a changing notion of the relationship between the machine, on the one hand,
and nature, on the other, construed as the agrarian or the landscape. Over time, the covers narrate the facilitation of an
increasing distance between the viewer and the land.
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- Gallery: Ernest Hamlin Baker (1889-1975)
- Illustrator Ernest Hamlin Baker produced a number of Fortune covers, and was one of the artists who helped create
the magazine's lush and striking profile.
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