ABSTRACT

In this article, I evaluate historian of science and technology W. Patrick McCray's 2020 publication Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture, a historical account of collaborations between artists and engineers in the ‘long 1960s.' Positioning McCray's work in a broader discourse around art's postwar entanglements with science and technology (one that has unfolded largely within art history), I work to differentiate McCray's approach to this period's ‘art-and-technology movement' and make sense of his historiographic interventions. I discuss McCray's close attention to the engineers and industrial entities involved in art-and-technology collaborations-agents rarely given equal billing with artists in existing histories—and argue that this redistribution of focus both complicates and enriches working understandings of the art-and-technology movement’s rise and fall.

摘要

在本文中，我评估了科技史学家 W. Patrick McCray 于 2020 年出版的《使艺术发挥作用：冷战工程师和艺术家如何打造新的创意文化》，对“漫长的 1960 年代”中艺术家和工程师之间合作的历史记录。将麦克雷的作品定位于围绕艺术战后与科学和技术的纠葛（主要在艺术史中展开）的更广泛的论述中，我努力区分麦克雷对这一时期“艺术与技术运动”的处理方法，并理解他的史学干预. 我讨论了麦克雷对参与艺术和技术合作的工程师和工业实体的密切关注——代理人在现有历史中很少与艺术家获得平等的账单——并认为这种焦点的重新分配既复杂化又丰富了对艺术和技术的理解。科技运动的兴衰。