Flesh and Metal Saturday Tours

Public tours of special exhibition Flesh and Metal: Body and Machine in Early 20th-Century Art. Artists in the first half of the 20th century involved in movements such as Constructivism, Purism, and Precisionism found beauty in the machine aesthetic, while proponents of Dada and Surrealism embraced chance, accident, and the unconscious as new paths to creativity. This exhibition features 74 works by major American and European artists who reconciled these camps: Margaret Bourke-White, Constantin Brancusi, Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp, Fernand Léger, Piet Mondrian, Alexander Rodchenko, Charles Sheeler, and others. The works—paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, photographs, and illustrated books—are drawn from the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Learn more