THE STREAMLINED DECADE
Donald J. Bush
Donald J. Bush: THE STREAMLINED DECADE. New York: George Braziller, 1975. First edition. A fine hardcover book in blue cloth stamped in blue and silver in a fine dust jacket: a well-preserved copy of the uncommon cloth edition. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print. 7.5 x 10.25 hardcover book with 214 pages and 175 b/w photographs and illustrations devoted to Streamline modernism in America.
From the book: "In the decade following the Crash of 1929 there arose a new profession in America, industrial design. Raymond Loewy, Norman Bel Geddes, Henry Dreyfuss, Walter Dorwin Teague and other early designers applied the principles of streamlining to useful products large and small, making them more attractive, safer and more functional.
Their dream of a healthier, happier future found full expression in the World of Tomorrow -- the 1939 New York World's Fair.
The author shows how the smooth continuous visual experience afforded by rounded streamlined forms had analogies in stream-of-consciousness literature, in "swing" music, in cinematography and in other manifestations of the twentieth century."
Contents:
- Introduction
- The Science of Penetration
- Ideal Forms
- The Dynamics of Two Fluids: The Streamlined Ship
- Flight by Rail: The Streamlined Train
- Terranautics: The Streamlined Automobile
- Architecture: The Streamlined Moderne
- The World of Tomorrow
- Dynamic Continuums
- Coda
- Selected Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Includes work by: Egmont Arens, Russel Wright, Raymond Loewy, Norman Bel Geddes, Henry Dreyfuss, Walter Dorwin Teague, William Stout, Kem Weber, Frank Lloyd Wright, Norman Zapf, Gilbert Rohde, Eric Mendelsohn, Peter Muller-Munk, Le Corbusier, Otto Kuhler, Buckminster Fuller, Donald Deskey, and many others.
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