Meta Harmony: Music Machines and Machine Music in Jean Tinguely's Oeuvre

by Jean Tinguely (Artist)

Meta Harmony features the sound- and music-producing machine sculptures of Swiss artist Jean Tinguely, addressing developments in music from the avant-garde until today both with works that deal with machines, and those in which machines produce sounds.

192 pages, Hardcover

Published February 28, 2017

About the author

Jean Tinguely (22 May 1925 – 30 August 1991) was a Swiss sculptor best known for his kinetic art sculptural machines (known officially as Métamatics) that extended the Dada tradition into the later part of the 20th century. Tinguely's art satirized automation and the technological overproduction of material goods.