Cold war hothouses : inventing postwar culture, from cockpit to playboy / Beatriz Colomina, AnnMarie Brennan, and Jeannie Kim, editors.

Title & Author:

Cold war hothouses : inventing postwar culture, from cockpit to playboy / Beatriz Colomina, AnnMarie Brennan, and Jeannie Kim, editors.

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Description:

287 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Cold war/hot houses -- Cockpit -- Forecast -- Plastics -- Playroom -- Toy -- Mission 66 -- Beat space -- Pornotopia.

Summary:

"Steeped in technological innovation and driven by unprecedented growth, life in America after World War II was transformed in every aspect and at every scale. From the military-industrial complex and suburban sprawl to the ballpoint pen and the TV dinner, the by-products of the Cold War radically altered physical space and human experience. In the half-century that separates these developments from our own time, however, our awe at the advances of postwar society has softened to nostalgia, and our affection for the everyday objects that were left behind has clouded our view of the enormous spatial reorganizations and transformations that took place, Cold War Hothouses casts an eye on this pivotal time in history, when scientists and architects, industrialists and advertisers, invented nothing short of a new American culture."--Jacket.

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Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

1568983026 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9781568983028 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Material culture United States History 20th century.
Technological innovations United States History 20th century.
Culture matérielle États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Innovations États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Manners and customs.
Material culture.
Social conditions
Technological innovations.
Utopische Architektur
Kunststoff
Architektur
Sachkultur
Ost-West-Konflikt
1940-1949.
1950-1959.
1960-1969.
Coutume sociale.
Culture matérielle.
Innovation technologique.
United States History 1945-
United States Social conditions 1945-
United States Social life and customs 1945-1970.
États-Unis Histoire 1945-
États-Unis Conditions sociales 1945-
États-Unis Mœurs et coutumes 1945-1970.
United States.
USA
États-Unis.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Colomina, Beatriz.
Brennan, Annmarie.
Kim, Jeannie.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 231944
Call No.: GN560.U6 C65 2004
Status: Available

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