Designing the image of the practical visionary : Norman Bel Geddes, 1893-1958

Norman Bel Geddes (1893-1958) was one of America's most prominent industrial designers working between 1927 and 1950. My study investigates his designs and rhetoric as rational and non-rational expressions of modernity. The aspects of modernity explored include: modernism, mass culture, consump...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Maffei, Nicolas Paolo
Published: Royal College of Art 2001
Subjects:
Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.508365