American design ethic : a history of industrial design to 1940 / Arthur J. Pulos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pulos, Arthur J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industrial design--United States--History.

Industrial design.

History.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (441 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1983.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

What is uniquely American about American design? This first history of American products and the philosophy behind their design, use, and manufacture points to the process - the interaction between industrial technology and culture - that gave form to an American ""ethic"" in material products and helped shape the life style of its citizens.Pulos discusses the influences and fashions as well as the major figures and schools of design from Colonial times to the 1940s. Central to the story are the objects and artifacts themselves - Shaker chairs, Colonial tea kettles, clipper ships, Sullivan's skyscraper department store; the work of Bel Geddes, Raymond Loewy, Russel Wright and Walter Teague as seen in cars, cameras, housewares, boats, locomotives. These objects and many others, are illustrated in over 300 unusual photographs, engravings, ads and drawings.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0262368102

9780262368100

OCLC:

1227942609

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access