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9780810906198

Vital Forms American Art and Design in the Atomic Age, 1940-1960

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  • ISBN13:

    9780810906198

  • ISBN10:

    0810906198

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-10-01
  • Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
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Summary

From the Studebaker, the Slinky (R), & the Eames chair, to the TWA terminal, paintings by deKooning & mobiles by Calder, this fascinating book examines how artists & designers responded to atomic-age anxieties during the postwar period.

Table of Contents

Foreword 17(2)
Arnold L. Lehman
Lenders to the Exhibition
19(3)
Introduction
22(16)
Kevin L. Stayton
The United States, 1941--1963: A Historical Overview
38(40)
Paul Boyer
The Greater Mystery of Things: Aspects of Vital Forms in American Art
78(44)
Brooke Kamin Rapaport
Building Organic Form: Architecture, Ceramics, Glass, and Metal in the 1940s and 1950s
122(42)
Martin Filler
From Futurama to Motorama
164(44)
Mildred Friedman
Organic Glitz: Designing Popular Culture in the Postwar Era
208(30)
Karal Ann Marling
Notes 238(4)
Acknowledgments 242(4)
Selected Bibliography 246(2)
Index 248(6)
Photograph Credits 254

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