Happiness by design : modernism and media in the Eames era / Justus Nieland.
Happiness by design : modernism and media in the Eames era / Justus Nieland.
Happiness by design : modernism and media in the Eames era / Justus Nieland.
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Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2020]
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G 2020/2586
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English
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Physical content
417 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
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text
still image
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Happy furniture: on the media environments of the Eames chair -- The scale is the world: designer pedagogy and expanded cinema -- Management cinema: film, communication, and postwar world-making in Aspen -- Memories of overdevelopment: the vision conferences and the fate of environmental design -- D...
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Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2020]
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Minnesota
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[2020]
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For the designers Charles and Ray Eames, happiness was both a technical and ideological problem central to the future of liberal democracy. Being happy demanded new things but also a vanguard life in media that the Eameses modeled as they brought film into their design practice. Midcentury modernism is often considered institutionalized, but 'Happi...
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Happiness by design : modernism and media in the Eames era / Justus Nieland.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2020/2586
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74VKaPxRpXRb
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaPxRpXRb
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1517902053 paperback alkaline paper
9781517902049 hardcover alkaline paper
1517902045 hardcover alkaline paper
9781517902056 paperback alkaline paper
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791.43025
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991024315912002626
