Описание: This highly visual book will appeal to automotive history buffs, classic car enthusiasts, and anyone interested in midcentury fashion and design. It explores how glamour, fashion, design, and styling became the main focus of automotive marketing from the postwar 1940s through the 1970s. With the expansion of the suburbs after WWII, women suddenly needed cars of their own, and the automobile industry made a direct appeal to the rising sophistication and influence of women. By perfecting the fashion-centric concept of planned obsolescence, it became the dominant economic engine of postwar prosperity. The dramatic photography, elegant fashion, and use of color and materials in midcentury automotive marketing created a groundswell of desire for new cars. Much of the marketing imagery of the period hasn't been published since it first came out, and this book features some of the best, with more than 400 photos, illustrations, auto brochures, and advertisements.
Название: A is for Atom: A Midcentury Alphabet ISBN: 1423644263 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781423644262 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 1792.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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From the creators of BabyLit(R), open a window on history while teaching toddlers the ABCs . . .
Teach brilliant babies about history and their ABCs with Greg Paprocki's A Is for Atom: A Midcentury Alphabet. Twenty-six midcentury concepts paired with Greg Paprocki's adorable illustrations include "D is for drive-in," "R is for rock-n-roll," and "S is for satellite." Babies will love this board book's engaging art, and parents will enjoy its slice of history with this primer's midcentury theme. Collect all six of Greg Paprocki's alphabet history primers
Greg Paprocki works full-time as an illustrator and book designer. He has illustrated several Curious George books, as well as The Big Book of Superheroes for Gibbs Smith. He began his career as an advertising art director after studying fine art and graphic design at the University of Nebraska.
How record albums and their covers delivered mood music, lifestyle advice, global sounds, and travel tips to midcentury Americans who longed to be modern.
The sleek hi-fi console in a well-appointed midcentury American living room might have had a stack of albums by musicians like Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, or Patti Page. It was just as likely to have had a selection of LPs from slightly different genres, with such titles as Cocktail Time, Music for a Chinese Dinner at Home, The Perfect Background Music for Your Home Movies, Honeymoon in Hawaii, Strings for a Space Age, or Cairo The Music of Modern Egypt. The brilliantly hued, full-color cover art might show an ideal listener, an ideal living room, an ideal tourist in an exotic landscape--or even an ideal space traveler. In Designed for Hi-Fi Living, Janet Borgerson and Jonathan Schroeder listen to and look at these vinyl LPs, scouring the cover art and the liner notes, and find that these albums offered a guide for aspirational Americans who yearned to be modern in postwar consumer culture.
Borgerson and Schroeder examine the representations of modern life in a selection of midcentury record albums, discussing nearly 150 vintage album covers, reproduced in color--some featuring modern art or the work of famous designers and photographers. Offering a fascinating glimpse into the postwar imagination, the first part, "Home," explores how the American home entered the frontlines of cold war debates and became an entertainment zone--a place to play music, mix drinks, and impress guests with displays of good taste. The second part, "Away," considers albums featuring music, pictures, and tourist information that prepared Americans for the jet age as well as the space race.
Автор: David Cobb Craig, David Hamsley Название: First Class: Americas Marvelous Midcentury Stamps ISBN: 0764364715 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780764364716 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 7934.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Every picture tells a story—even one on a postage stamp. Presented hugely enlarged, the 144 stamps in this book chronicle a stylish era of design: mid-20th-century America. Spanning the late 1950s to the early 1970s, these mini-masterpieces were created when the US post office started to lavish color on its stamps and to hire the best midcentury talents to design them. The roster includes Japanese American children’s book illustrator Gyo Fujikawa, barrier-busting Black graphic artist Georg Olden, industrial design legend Raymond Loewy, and sultan of psychedelia Peter Max. Photographed at five, ten, and even fifteen times actual size, each stamp is presented with a morsel of fun info that will broadly appeal to stamp collectors, history and nostalgia buffs, midcentury design fans, and everyone who likes to geek out on magnified views of tiny, beautiful images.
A delightful history of cocktails from the era of new interstate highways, sprouting suburbs, and atomic engineering America at midcentury was a nation on the move, taking to wings and wheels along the new interstate highways and in passenger jets that soared to thirty thousand feet. Anxieties rippled, but this new Atomic Age promised cheap power and future wonders, while the hallmark of the era was the pleasure of an evening imbibing cocktails in mixed company, a middle-class idea of sophisticated leisure. This new age, stretching from the post–World War II baby boom years through the presidency of General Dwight Eisenhower into the increasingly volatile mid-1960s, promised affordable homes for those who had never dreamed of owning property and an array of gleaming appliances to fill them. For many, this was America at its best—innovation, style, and the freedom to enjoy oneself—and the spirit of this time is reflected in the whimsical cocktails that rose to prominence: tiki drinks, Moscow mules, Sea Breezes, Pina Coladas, Pink Squirrels, and Sloe Gin Fizzes. Of course, not everyone was invited to the party. Though the drinks were getting sweeter, the racial divide was getting more bitter—Black Americans in search of a drink, entertainment, or a hotel room had to depend on the Green Book for advice on places where they would be welcome and safe. And the Cold War and Space Race proceeded ominously throughout this period, as technological advances alternately thrilled and terrified. The third installment in Cecelia Tichi’s tour of the cocktails enjoyed in various historical eras, Midcentury Cocktails brings a time of limitless possibilities to life though the cocktails created, named, and consumed.
Автор: Bello, Abiola Sami, Annabelle Dean, Benjamin Norry, E. L. Mcnicoll, Elle Stevens, Robin Williams, J.t. Chan, Maisie Farook, Nizrana Lawrence, Patrice Название: Your mess, god`s miracle - the process is temporary, the promise is permanent ISBN: 0865654190 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780865654198 Издательство: Thames & Hudson Рейтинг: Цена: 9900.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Presents the first in-depth, interdisciplinary, and integrated analysis by American and Haitian scholars of the creation and dissemination of Haiti`s Declaration of Independence, its content and reception, and its legacy. Throughout, the contributors use newly discovered archival materials and innovative research methods to reframe the importance of Haiti within the Age of Revolution.
Автор: Rich Marci Название: Looking Back at Elyria: A Midwest City at Midcentury ISBN: 1540241327 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781540241320 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 4551.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The story of a forgotten health education film, Challenge: Science Against Cancer (1950), and what it tells us about mid-twentieth century North American cancer research, medical filmmaking, and health education campaigns.
Автор: Daniel A. Siedell Название: Weldon Kees and the Arts at Midcentury ISBN: 0803222378 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780803222373 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 3430.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Born in 1914 in Beatrice, Nebraska, and presumed dead in 1955 (when he apparently leapt from the Golden Gate Bridge), Weldon Kees has become one of the better-known “unknown” American poets of the twentieth century, his fiction and poetry largely kept alive by other poets. But Kees was also that rare artist who excelled in many genres and media: a skillful painter, filmmaker, jazz musician, and composer. He was a gifted critic as well, and his criticism bears the marks of his own deep and broad engagement with the arts.
Weldon Kees and the Arts at Midcentury is the first book to reflect the full range and reach of Kees’s artistic activities. Bringing together writers from various disciplines—art historians, poets, literary critics, curators, and cultural scholars, including Dore Ashton, James Reidel, Dana Gioia, and Stephen C. Foster—this volume offers a wide variety of perspectives through which to evaluate the meaning and significance of Kees’s achievement. Although the essays themselves partake of the diversity of Kees’s impact on the culture, all agree on one fundamental point: any history of postwar American culture that neglects Kees’s multifaceted contribution is ultimately incomplete.
Автор: Stenggers Isabelle Название: Speculative Empiricism ISBN: 1474423051 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474423052 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 3958.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Didier Debaise focuses in on Whitehead s attempt to construct a metaphysical system of everything in the universe that exists whilst simultaneously claiming that it can account for every element of our experience, giving us a radically new way of conceiving the relations between experience and speculation.
Автор: Reece-hughes, Shirley Название: World outside ISBN: 0300272626 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780300272628 Издательство: Wiley yUP Рейтинг: Цена: 5775.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Debaise, Director Of The Centre For Research In Philosophy Didier (free University Of Brussels) Stengers, Professor Of Philosophy Isabelle (universite Название: Speculative empiricism ISBN: 1474423043 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474423045 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 17424.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Didier Debaise focuses in on Whitehead s attempt to construct a metaphysical system of everything in the universe that exists whilst simultaneously claiming that it can account for every element of our experience, giving us a radically new way of conceiving the relations between experience and speculation.
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