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Terry Smith

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
Subjects



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