Universal City, from the Linear City Series, project, Aerial perspective of Earth's horizon
Raimund Abraham
American, born Austria. 1933–2010
1966
A collage of printed papers, a gelatin silver photograph, and ink that imagines a helmeted figure looking down a stark, receding architectural spine toward Earth's horizon as part of Raimund Abraham’s Linear City project.
What hits you first is the oversized, worn helmet in the foreground confronting a high‑contrast, triangular vanishing point made of repetitive, mechanical forms, a cinematic tension between human presence and an engineered landscape.
By using photomontage and a space‑age viewpoint, Abraham translated Cold War spectacle into a radical architectural proposal, helping to expand how architects represented visionary, infrastructural cities in the 1960s.
Medium
Cut-and-pasted printed papers, cut-and-pasted gelatin silver photograph, and ink on board
Dimensions
13 1/8 x 17" (33.3 x 43.2 cm)
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Accession
1292.1968
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