Contraption
Rediscovering California Jewish Artists
Distributed for Hirmer Publishers
96 pages
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50 color plates
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8 1/2 x 11
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© 2018
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- Review Quotes
Table of Contents

Contents
Executive Director’s Foreword
Acknowledgements
Moving Parts: Contraptions and Jewish Tradition
Rachel B. Gross
Conversations about Contraptions
Mark Dean Johnson
Society is a Machine
Renny Pritikin
Artists
Judith Belzer
Carol Bernard
Edward Biberman
Boris Deutsch
Miriam Dym
Bella Feldman
Howard Fried
Rube Goldberg
John Gutmann
Bruce Handelsman
Ned Kahn
Richard Kamler
Bernie Lubell
Irving Norman
Annabeth Rosen
Sheri Simmons
Appendix
Arist Biographies
Checklist
Board of Trustees
Sponsors
Acknowledgements
Moving Parts: Contraptions and Jewish Tradition
Rachel B. Gross
Conversations about Contraptions
Mark Dean Johnson
Society is a Machine
Renny Pritikin
Artists
Judith Belzer
Carol Bernard
Edward Biberman
Boris Deutsch
Miriam Dym
Bella Feldman
Howard Fried
Rube Goldberg
John Gutmann
Bruce Handelsman
Ned Kahn
Richard Kamler
Bernie Lubell
Irving Norman
Annabeth Rosen
Sheri Simmons
Appendix
Arist Biographies
Checklist
Board of Trustees
Sponsors
Review Quotes
Tablet
“At this exhibit, the audiences won’t find the sleek machines populating the dreams and demo videos of the Silicon Valley startups. They’ll find clunky, awkward, ridiculous but profoundly affecting mechanisms that will remind us above all of the most outdated technological golems: ourselves.”
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