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Designing Modern America: Broadway to Main Street - Hardcover

Innes, Christopher

 
9780300108040: Designing Modern America: Broadway to Main Street
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0300108044 ISBN 13: 9780300108040
Verlag: Yale University Press, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

The story of two legendary designers who made "modern America"

From the 1920s through the 1950s, two individuals, Joseph Urban and Norman Bel Geddes, did more, by far, to create the image of "America" and make it synonymous with modernity than any of their contemporaries. Urban and Bel Geddes were leading Broadway stage designers and directors who turned their prodigious talents to other projects, becoming mavericks first in industrial design and then in commercial design, fashion, architecture, and more. The two men gave shape to the most quintessential symbols of the modern American lifestyle, including movies, cars, department stores, and nightclubs, along with private homes, kitchens, stoves, fridges, magazines, and numerous household furnishings.

Illustrated with more than 130 photographs of their influential designs, this book tells the engrossing story of Urban and Bel Geddes. Christopher Innes shows how these two men with a background in theater lent dramatic flair to everything they designed and how this theatricality gave the distinctive modernity they created such wide appeal. If the American lifestyle has been much imitated across the globe over the past fifty years, says Innes, it is due in large measure to the designs of Urban and Bel Geddes. Together they were responsible for creating what has been called the "Golden Age" of American culture.

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Christopher Innes is Canada Research Chair in Performance & Culture at York University, Toronto.

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Verlag
Yale University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2005
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0300108044
ISBN 13 
9780300108040
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
338
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