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04225aam a2200529 i 4500 001 91409A04403511EB87AA299C42ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20201217010015 008 190322t20202020mnuaf b s001 0 eng 010 $a 2019001520 020 $a 1517902053 020 $a 9781517902056 020 $a 1517902045 020 $a 9781517902049 035 $a (OCoLC)1090698804 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCF $d ERASA $d MYG $d OXF $d YDX $d GZN $d CHVBK $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PN1995.9.A74 $b N54 2020 082 00 $a 791.4302/5 $2 23 100 1 $a Nieland, Justus, $e author. 245 10 $a Happiness by design : $b modernism and media in the Eames era / $c Justus Nieland. 264 1 $a Minneapolis : $b University of Minnesota Press, $c [2020] 300 $a 417 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations (some color) ; $c 23 cm 520 8 $a For the designers Charles and Ray Eames, happiness was both a technical and ideological problem central to the future of liberal democracy. Being happy demanded new things but also a vanguard life in media that the Eameses modeled as they brought film into their design practice. Midcentury modernism is often considered institutionalized, but 'Happiness by Design' casts Eames-era designers as innovative media artists, technophilic humanists, change managers, and neglected film theorists. 'Happiness by Design' offers a fresh cultural history of midcentury modernism through the film and multimedia experiments of Charles and Ray Eames and their peers-Will Burtin, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and Gyoergy Kepes, among others-at a moment when designers enjoyed a new cultural prestige. Justus Nieland traces how, as representatives of the American Century's exuberant material culture, Cold War designers engaged in creative activities that spanned disciplines and blended art and technoscience while reckoning with the environmental reach of media at the dawn of the information age.0Eames-era modernism, Nieland shows, fueled novel techniques of culture administration, spawning new partnerships between cultural and educational institutions, corporations, and the state. From the studio, showroom floor, or classroom to the stages of world fairs and international conferences, the midcentury multimedia experiments of Charles and Ray Eames and their circle became key to a liberal democratic lifestyle-and also anticipated the look and feel of our networked present. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Happy furniture: on the media environments of the Eames chair -- The scale is the world: designer pedagogy and expanded cinema -- Management cinema: film, communication, and postwar world-making in Aspen -- Memories of overdevelopment: the vision conferences and the fate of environmental design -- Designer film theory: techniques of happiness -- Designer film theory, II: media pedagogy and modernist information aesthetics -- Coda: the Norton chair, circa 1970: trilling or Eames?. 600 10 $a Eames, Charles $x Influence. 600 10 $a Eames, Ray $x Influence. 600 17 $a Eames, Charles. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00045337 600 17 $a Eames, Ray. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00053976 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 650 0 $a Motion pictures $x Art direction. 650 0 $a Motion pictures $x Setting and scenery. 650 0 $a Modernism (Art) $z United States. 650 7 $a Civilization. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00862898 650 7 $a Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00972484 650 7 $a Modernism (Art) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01024442 650 7 $a Motion pictures $x Art direction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01027293 650 7 $a Motion pictures $x Setting and scenery. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01027381 651 0 $a United States $x Civilization $y 20th century. 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 776 08 $i Online version: $a Nieland, Justus, author. $t Happiness by design $d Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2018] $z 9781452960180 $w (DLC) 2019014280 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240202025709.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317024539.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=91409A04403511EB87AA299C42ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search