"Fantasies of Precision is a book that lives up to the genius of its artworks. With unusual sophistication and ease, Ashley Lazevnick brings the historical facts of American philosophy, medicine, technology, and literature to the flat, painted surfaces of modernist precisionism. Charles Demuth, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Charles Sheeler have found their new champion."–Jennifer Jane Marshall, author of Machine Art, 1934
"Ashley Lazevnick confronts the inherent imprecision of our understanding of the precisionist movement, freshly arguing for the term's usefulness. Her expansive study builds on fluid and layered observations, close looking, and surprising connections across cultural corridors. She makes the familiar unfamiliar, making us look again."–Wanda M. Corn, Stanford University