Design in the USA

Jeffrey L. Meikle

256 pages, parution le 01/06/2005

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Résumé

From the Cadillac to the Apple Mac, the skyscraper to the Tiffany lampshade, the world in which we live has been profoundly influenced for over a century by the work of American designers. But the product is only the end of a story that is full of fascinating questions. What has been the social and cultural role of design in American society? To produce useful things that consumers need? Or to persuade them to buy things that they don't need? Where does the designer stand in all this? And how has the role of design in America changed over time, since the early days of the young Republic?

Jeffrey Meikle explores the social and cultural history of American design spanning over two centuries, from the hand-crafted furniture and objects of the early nineteenth century, through the era of industrialization and the mass production of the machine age, to the information-based society of the present, covering everything from the Arts and Crafts movement to Art Deco, modernism to post-modernism, MOMA to the Tupperware bowl.

Unique coverage of design in the USA, from the late eighteenth century to the present day
Includes further reading, timeline, and list of relevant museums and web sites
Exploration of the underlying social, cultural, and economic role of design in the USA

Covers everything from Tupperware to skyscrapers, the Cadillac to the Apple Mac

Readership: The general reader interested in design or Americana; those with a more specific interest such as students/teachers of design, American Studies, or Cultural Studies.

L'auteur - Jeffrey L. Meikle

Jeffrey L. Meikle, Professor of American Studies and Art History at the University of Texas, Austin

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Introduction
1 Emergence of the American System, 1790-1860
2 Art and Industry in the Gilded Age, 1860-1918
3 Designing the Machine Age, 1918-1940
4 High Design versus Popular Styling, 1940-1965
5 Toward the Millennium: Moving Beyond Modernism
Further Reading
Museums
Web Sites
Timeline

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Oxford University Press
Auteur(s)	Jeffrey L. Meikle
Parution	01/06/2005
Nb. de pages	256
Format	17 x 24
Couverture	Broché
Poids	605g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780192842190
ISBN13	978-0-19-284219-0