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Twentieth century limited : industrial design in America, 1925-1939 /

In the late 1920's "streamlined" 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, Je...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Meikle, Jeffrey L., 1949- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia, PA : Temple University Press, 2001.
Edición:2nd ed., with a new preface and enhanced photographs.
Colección:American civilization.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.