Mach's artistic style is based on flowing assemblages of mass-produced objects.
"Silk ribbons bearing Washington's portrait issued by the society are among the earliest mass-produced partisan objects in American political history."
You think objects are for ever, but mass-produced objects only came in with the industrial revolution and maybe won't exist for much longer.
Many of his works consist of arrangements of mass-produced objects or readymades.
The first mass-produced precision-made object with interchangeable-parts was the Enfield rifle.
By museum standards, such mass-produced objects are historically inauthentic and artistically suspect.
The designers would print a location map on the most mass-produced object in the world: the Coca-Cola can, 4.5 billion of which are produced each month.
The message was that there was a platonic beauty in mass-produced utilitarian objects.
What's often forgotten is the more radical gesture by which Pop artists turned art into something very much like an everyday, mass-produced object.
He was also interested in the technical aspects of art, and invented a polychroming process for mass-produced objects.