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Mid-Century Modernism and the American Body : Race, Gender, and the Politics of Power in Design
Author
Title
Mid-Century Modernism and the American Body : Race, Gender, and the Politics of Power in Design / Kristina Wilson.
ISBN
9780691213491
9780691208190
Edition
First.
Publication
Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2021.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
Copyright Notice Date
©2021.
Physical Description
1 online resource (264 pages).
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Access is available to the Yale community.
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Description based on print version record.
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Summary
"The first investigation of the role of how modernist objects were marketed by affirming buyers' racial and gender identities"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE complete collection 2021.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 17, 2023
Contents
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.
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Genre/Form
History.
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