1945 H. Read lxvii. 320 (heading) Machine aesthetic.
1967 8 June 745/3 The Bauhaus is one thing, and the machine aesthetic..is another.
1973 8 Aug. 10/4 In Léger's writings of the Twenties, it is not so much speed as the mass-produced object and the ‘machine aesthetic’ which occupies his attention. He saw the mass-produced object as the surfacing of an anonymous natural beauty of man-made forms.