Design in the USA

Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-19-284219-0
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 445 g

Reihe: Oxford History of Art

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.

Zielgruppe

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Meikle, Jeffrey L.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Design Produktdesign, Industriedesign
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 19. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Über Autor(innen)

Jeffrey L. Meikle is Professor of American Studies and Art History at the University of Texas, Austin, and the author of American Plastic: A Cultural History, which won the Dexter Prize of the Society for the History of Technology in 1996. He was Bicentennial Fulbright Professor of American Studies at the University of Helsinki for the year 2003-4.