Frances Picabia uses the best light bulb on the market at the time, Edison Mazda’s, to both criticize american costumes and to show admiration for America’s work.
He inspired americans to look at their own technology for inspiration in making art.
Francis Picabia. Cover of journal 391. No. 6. Américaine.
New York: July 1917.
Half-tone photograph, retouched.
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