Designing modern America : Broadway to Main Street / Christopher Innes.

Main entry:

Innes, C. D.

Title & Author:

Designing modern America : Broadway to Main Street / Christopher Innes.

Publication:

Description:

xiv, 320 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-311) and index.
Styling for the modern age -- Egos at work -- Theatrical fashions -- Stage and screen -- Society scenery -- A century of progress -- Riding into the future -- The world of tomorrow -- Car culture -- Street scenes -- Reaching for the sky -- Suburban heaven -- Lifestyle begins in the kitchen -- Selling modernity -- Afterword: then and now.

Summary:

"Illustrated with more than 130 photographs of their influential designs, this book tells the story of Joseph Urban and Norman Bel Geddes. Christopher Innes shows how these two men with a background in theatre 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 around 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."--Book jacket.

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Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Table of contents

ISBN:

0300108044 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780300108040 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Geddes, Norman Bel, 1893-1958 Criticism and interpretation.
Geddes, Norman Bel, 1893-1958.
Urban, Joseph, 1872-1933 Criticism and interpretation.
Urban, Joseph, 1872-1933.
Design United States History 20th century.
Theaters Stage-setting and scenery United States History 20th century.
Design États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Design.
Theaters Stage-setting and scenery.
United States.

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 241135
Call No.: BIB 171041
Status: Available

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