Twentieth century limited : industrial design in America, 1925-1939
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Twentieth century limited : industrial design in America, 1925-1939
（American civilization）
Temple University Press, 2001
2nd ed., with a new pref. and enhanced photographs
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Bibliography: p. [233]-237
Includes index
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ISBN 9781566398923
内容説明
In the late 1920's \u0022streamlined\u0022 became the term businessmen used to describe new models that were easier to produce as well as those that met with less sales resistance than older products. Illustrating this concept with streamlined objects from soup cans to the Chrysler building, Jeffrey Meikle's classic book, Twentieth Century Limited, celebrates the birth of the industrial design profession from 1925-1939. This second edition includes a new preface and improved photographic reproduction.Commercial artists who answered the call of business -- Walter Dorwin Teague, Norman Bel Geddes, Henry Dreyfuss, and Raymond Loewy the best known among them -- were pioneers who envisioned a coherent machine-age environment in which life would be clean, efficient, and harmonious. Working with new materials -- chrome, stainless steel, Bakelite plastic -- they created a streamlined expressionist style which reflected the desire of the Depression-era public for a frictionless, static society.Appliances such as Loewy's Coldspot refrigerator \u0022set a new standard\u0022 (according to the advertisements), and its usefulness extended to the way it improved the middle-class consumer's taste for sleek new products.Profusely illustrated with 150 photographs, Twentieth Century Limited pays tribute to the industrial designers and the way they transformed American culture; a generation after its initial publication, this book remains the best introduction to the subject. The new edition will fascinate anyone interested in art, architecture, technology, and American culture of the 1930's.
目次
CONTENTS
Illustrations
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface
Prologue
1. A Consumer Society and Its Discontents
2. Machine Aesthetics
3. The New Industrial Designers
4. Selling Industrial Design
5. Industrialized Design
6. Everything from a Match to a City
7. The Practical Ultimate
8. From Depression to Expression
9. A Microcosm of the Machine-Age World
Notes
Sources
Index
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: pbk ISBN 9781566398930
内容説明
In the late 1920's \u0022streamlined\u0022 became the term businessmen used to describe new models that were easier to produce as well as those that met with less sales resistance than older products. Illustrating this concept with streamlined objects from soup cans to the Chrysler building, Jeffrey Meikle's classic book, Twentieth Century Limited, celebrates the birth of the industrial design profession from 1925-1939. This second edition includes a new preface and improved photographic reproduction. Commercial artists who answered the call of business -- Walter Dorwin Teague, Norman Bel Geddes, Henry Dreyfuss, and Raymond Loewy the best known among them -- were pioneers who envisioned a coherent machine-age environment in which life would be clean, efficient, and harmonious. Working with new materials -- chrome, stainless steel, Bakelite plastic -- they created a streamlined expressionist style which reflected the desire of the Depression-era public for a frictionless, static society.
Appliances such as Loewy's Coldspot refrigerator \u0022set a new standard\u0022 (according to the advertisements), and its usefulness extended to the way it improved the middle-class consumer's taste for sleek new products. Profusely illustrated with 150 photographs, Twentieth Century Limited pays tribute to the industrial designers and the way they transformed American culture; a generation after its initial publication, this book remains the best introduction to the subject. The new edition will fascinate anyone interested in art, architecture, technology, and American culture of the 1930's.
目次
CONTENTS Illustrations Preface to the Second Edition Preface Prologue 1. A Consumer Society and Its Discontents 2. Machine Aesthetics 3. The New Industrial Designers 4. Selling Industrial Design 5. Industrialized Design 6. Everything from a Match to a City 7. The Practical Ultimate 8. From Depression to Expression 9. A Microcosm of the Machine-Age World Notes Sources Index
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