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American design in the twentieth century : personality and performance / Gregory Votolato.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in design and material culturePublisher: Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, [1998]Distributor: New York : Distributed in the USA by St. Martin's Press Copyright date: ©1998Description: xviii, 301 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0719045312
  • 9780719045318
  • 0719045304
  • 9780719045301
Other title:
  • American design in the 20th century
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 745.409730904 22
LOC classification:
  • NK1404. V68 1998
Contents:
List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Chronology -- Introduction -- I. Style and design -- 1. American taste and style: beyond the cringe -- 2. Utopia and the mall: theories and movements -- 3. Ideas into objects -- 4. Materials and technology -- 5. Designers and makers -- II. Four case studies -- 6. The case of Post-Modernism: a late-century movement -- 7. Industrial drama: the custom car myth -- 8. Making American homes: domestic architecture and interiors -- 9. Nice threads: identity and utility in American fashion -- III. Critical approaches do design -- Conclusion: limitations and possibilities -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 745.409730904 VOT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A196066B

Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-290) and index.

List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Chronology -- Introduction -- I. Style and design -- 1. American taste and style: beyond the cringe -- 2. Utopia and the mall: theories and movements -- 3. Ideas into objects -- 4. Materials and technology -- 5. Designers and makers -- II. Four case studies -- 6. The case of Post-Modernism: a late-century movement -- 7. Industrial drama: the custom car myth -- 8. Making American homes: domestic architecture and interiors -- 9. Nice threads: identity and utility in American fashion -- III. Critical approaches do design -- Conclusion: limitations and possibilities -- Bibliography -- Index.

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