| Description |
1 online resource (441 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
The Colonies: The arts of survival. The arts of industry. The arts of affluence -- The young republic: The search for identity. The promise of free enterprise. The American system of manufactures -- The democracy: Equality and opportunity. Elegance and the middle class -- The aristocracy: Industrial arts and good taste. Industrialization and the good life. From beaux-arts to arts and crafts -- The new century: Industrial arts and the arts of manufacture. Mass production and concern for design. The arsenal of democracy and a call for design -- The machine age: Commercial art discovers design. The rejection of art moderne. Art moderne becomes industrial design -- The design decade : The house of tomorrow. Skyscrapers and streamliners. From "cleanlining" to accountability -- Epilogue: From affluence to conscience |
| Summary |
What is uniquely American about American design? This first history of American products and the philosophy behind their design, use, and manufacture points to the process - the interaction between industrial technology and culture - that gave form to an American ""ethic"" in material products and helped shape the life style of its citizens. Pulos discusses the influences and fashions as well as the major figures and schools of design from Colonial times to the 1940s. Central to the story are the objects and artifacts themselves - Shaker chairs, Colonial tea kettles, clipper ships, Sullivan's skyscraper department store; the work of Bel Geddes, Raymond Loewy, Russel Wright and Walter Teague as seen in cars, cameras, housewares, boats, locomotives. These objects and many others, are illustrated in over 300 unusual photographs, engravings, ads and drawings |
| Analysis |
DESIGN/Industrial Design |
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ARCHITECTURE/General |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 426-433) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Industrial design -- United States -- History
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Industrial design
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Geschichte
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Industriedesign
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Industriële vormgeving.
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United States
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USA
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0262368102 |
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9780262368100 |
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