Savage mind to savage machine : racial science and twentieth-century design / Ginger Nolan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nolan, Ginger, author.

Contributor:

Rev. C. P. Krauth Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics, Modern--20th century.

Aesthetics, Modern.

Ethnic attitudes.

Human engineering.

Technology--Social aspects.

Technology.

Physical Description:

284 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2021]

Summary:

"An examination of how concepts of "the savage" facilitated technological approaches to modernist design"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I INDUSTRIAL ARTS

1. The Architecture Machine Industrial Design And Theories Of Racial Evolution

2. The Bauhaus And The Aura Of Authorship Class And Race In The Age Of Technological Reproducibility

pt. II ARCHITECTURE

3. Postwar European Modernism, Or What The Primitive Hut Really Said

4. Bricolage, Megastructure, Interface Yona Friedman And The Humanitarian Machine

pt. III THE ENVIRONMENT

5. The Earth Unfolded Aspen, Africa, And The Geopolitics Of Environment

6. Harlem Speaks To Aspen Environmental Politics Versus Environmental Design

pt. IV MEDIA ARTS

7. Pentecostal Technologies The Architecture Machine (Again)

8. Technological Sovereignty And The Global South.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rev. C. P. Krauth Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Nolan, Ginger. Savage mind to savage machine

ISBN:

9781517905859

1517905850

9781517905866

1517905869

OCLC:

1184123106

Publisher Number:

99987948475