Mid-century modernism and the American body : race, gender, and the politics of power in design /

"The first investigation of the role of how modernist objects were marketed by affirming buyers' racial and gender identities"--

Dades bibliogràfiques
Autor principal: Wilson, Kristina (Autor)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press [2021]
Accés en línia:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv18b5dd0
Taula de continguts:
  • The body in control : modernism and the pursuit of better living
  • "Modern design? You bet!" Ebony, life, and modernist design, 1950-1959
  • Like a "girl in a bikini suit" and other stories : narrating race and gender at Herman Miller
  • "The quick appraising glance" : decorative accessories and the staged self
  • Epilogue : the ubiquity of mid-century modernism.