Caption:
The Pumpkin Harvest, 1897, Giovanni Segantini, Italian, 1858 - 1899, 33 x 57 1/8 in. (83.82 x 145.1 cm) (sight)50 x 74 1/4 x 5 1/4 in. (127 x 188.6 x 13.34 cm) (outer frame), Oil on canvas, Italy, 19th century, 'Within the lifetime of a single generation, a rustic and in large part wild landscape was transformed into the site of the world's most productive industrial machine. It would be difficult to imagine more profound contradictions of value or meaning than those made manifest by this circumstance.' So writes Leo Marx in his touchstone book The Machine in the Garden (1964).