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Installation view of Automania, MoMA, New York, July 4, 2021 – January 2,
2022. © 2021 The Museum of Modern Art. Photo: Robert Gerhardt
car factories (c. 1930–32) by Margaret Bourke-White,
Halas and Batchelor. Film still from Automania 2000. 1963. 35mm film a Volkswagen Beetle (designed 1938), Frank Lloyd
transferred to video, 10 min. Directed by John Halas. Written by Joy Batchelor. Wright’s 1955 drawings for a “Road Machine,” Orange
Animated by Harold Whitaker. Art Directed by Tom Bailey. Composed by Jack
King. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. © 1963 Halas and Batchelor Car Crash Fourteen Times (1963) by Andy Warhol,
a Jorge Rigamonti 1966–70 photocollage illustrating
a dystopic view of environmental destruction in
Venezuela, and a 1946 Cisitalia 202 GT Car.

Automania also invite visitors to take an up-close
view of objects that Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard
Jeanneret) compared to ancient Greek temples and
Roland Barthes provocatively likened to “the great
Gothic cathedrals…the supreme creation of an era,"
witha presentation of five cars in the Sculpture
Garden. Included in this display is the recently
acquired Citroën DS 23 sedan (designed 1954–67) and
a Porsche 911 coupé (1965), both of which are on view
at MoMA for the first time.

Installation view of Automania, MoMA, New York, July 4, 2021 – January 2, Installation view of Automania, MoMA, New York, July 4, 2021 – January 2,
2022. © 2021 The Museum of Modern Art. Photo: Robert Gerhardt 2022. © 2021 The Museum of Modern Art. Photo: Robert Gerhardt

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