Making the Modern
Industry, Art, and Design in America
528 pages, 156 halftones 6-5/8 x 9-3/8
©
1993
Paper $48.00
ISBN: 9780226763477
Published January 1994
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Visual Imagery of Modernity Pt. 1: The Modernization of Work: Detroit, 1910-1929 1: Fordism: Mass Production and Total Control 2: Architecture and Mass Production: The Functionalism Question 3: Henry Ford and Charles Sheeler: Monopoly and Modernism 4: The Garden in the Machine Pt. 2: Modernization and National Dissensus: Imagery of Reality in the 1930s 5: The Shaping of Seeing: Outrageous Fortune 6: The Resistant Other: Diego Rivera in Detroit 7: Frida Kahlo: Marginality and Modernity 8: Of the People, For the People 9: Official Images, Modern Times Pt. 3: Design or Revolution? Styling Modernity in the 1930s 10: Designing Design: Modernity for Sale 11: "Pure" Modernism Inc. 12: Funfair Futurama: A Consuming Spectacle Pt. 4: The Modern Effect 13: Modernity becomes Normal Notes Index
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