Industrial strength design how Brooks Stevens shaped your world /
| Main Author: | Adamson, Glenn. |
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| Other Authors: | Stevens, Brooks, 1911-1995., Milwaukee Art Museum. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Milwaukee, Wis. : Cambridge, Mass. :
Milwaukee Art Museum ; MIT Press,
[2003]
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| Physical Description: |
xi, 219 pages : illustrations, (some color), portraits ; 28 cm. |
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Table of Contents:
- The desire for the new: the context of Brooks Stevens's career / John Heskett
- Brooks Stevens, the man in your life: shaping the domestic sphere, 1935-1950 / Kristina Wilson
- Brooks Stevens: "ego-inspiring styling" and the American dream / Jody Clowes
- Career and designs / Glenn Adamson
- One: Less than perfect: early influences and first designs, 1911-1934
- Two: The right place at the right time: becoming an industrial designer in the Midwest, 1935-1940
- Three: The prophet of profit: Stevens in wartime, 1941-1945
- Four: The organization man: Stevens' best years, 1946-1955
- Five: The enfant terrible of industrial design: planned obsolescence and other crimes against modernism, 1956-1978
- Six: The seer who made Milwaukee famous: reluctant retirement, 1978-1994.