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Author:
Nolan, Ginger, author.
Title:
Savage mind to savage machine : racial science and twentieth-century design / Ginger Nolan.
Publisher:
University of Minnesota Press,
Copyright Date:
2021
Description:
284 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm
Subject:
Aesthetics, Modern--20th century.
Ethnic attitudes.
Human engineering.
Technology--Social aspects.
1900-1999
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The Architecture Machine: Industrial Design and Theories of Racial Evolution -- The Bauhaus and the Aura of Authorship: Class and Race in the Age of Technological Reproducibility -- Post-War European Modernism: Or, What the Primitive Hut Really Said -- Bricolage, Megastructure, Interface: Yona Friedman and the Humanitarian Machine -- The Earth Unfolded: Aspen, Africa, and the Geopolitics of Environment -- Harlem Speaks to Aspen: Environmental Politics versus Environmental Design -- Pentecostal Technologies: The Architecture Machine (Again) -- Technological Sovereignty and the Global South -- Conclusion: The Present and Future of Spiritual Ergonomics.
Summary:
"An examination of how concepts of "the savage" facilitated technological approaches to modernist design"-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
1517905850
9781517905859
1517905869
9781517905866
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1184123106
LCCN:
2020034686
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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