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Mid-century modernism and the American body : race, gender, and the politics of power in design
Record details
- ISBN: 0691208190
- ISBN: 9780691208190
- ISBN: 0691213496
- ISBN: 9780691213491
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (vii, 254 pages) : illustrations (some color)
remote - Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2021]
- Copyright: ©2021
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-243) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
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| Genre: | History |
