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Twentieth century limited : industrial design in America, 1925-1939 / Jeffrey L. Meikle.
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View onlineAthenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection TS23 .M45 1979
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Meikle, Jeffrey L., 1949-
- Series:
- American civilization
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States.
- Industrial design--United States--History.
- Industrial design.
- Genre:
- History.
- Books.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 249 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1979.
- Contents:
- Foreword
- 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:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-237) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Longhi Fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 0877221588
- 9780877221586
- 0877222460
- 9780877222460
- OCLC:
- 5170811
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