THE MACHINE AGE IN AMERICA 1918-1941

Richard Guy Wilson, Dianne H. Pilgrim, Dickran Tashjian

9 x 11.25 hardcover book with 376 pages and more than 400 illustrations, including 55 color plates. One of the best volumes ever published on the aesthetics of Modern Machine-Age Design. Whatever you call it -- Art Deco, Moderne Industrial design, Moderne, Streamlined Modern, International, Constructivism, Functionalism, American Studio Art -- its all good and its all well-represented in this landmark volume assembled by the Brooklyn Museum for their landmark 1986 show on machine Age art and design.

From the Book: "The Machine Age in America presents a comprehensive view of the styles of the period ­ Art Deco, moderne, streamlined modern, International Style, constructivism, functionalism... While it examines in detailed text and more than 400 illustrations the full range of early twentieth-century American art and artifacts. It is the first book to analyze works of art and architecture as well as actual machines within their social and cultural contexts.

The machine age was marked by a utopian faith in technology that persisted even during the Great Depression. The American public, influenced by innovative designers such as Norman Bel Geddes, Raymond Loewy, and Buckminster Fuller, anticipated the creation of a new world... And indeed soon an image of Modern America took shape. Vast industrial complexes, high-voltage power lines, superhighways, huge suspension bridges, and other engineering marvels came to dominate the landscape.

The machine also entered the American household, bringing with it new comforts, lifestyles, and entertainments in the form of chromium tubular furniture, mass-produced appliances, and the radio. The Machine Age in America captures the mood, the energy, of an age of transition -- the years between the two world wars.

Contents:

• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• America and the Machine Age
• Machine Aesthetics
• Selling the Machine Age
• The Machine in the Landscape
• Transportation Machine Age
• Architecture in the Machine Age
• Engineering a New Art
• Design for the Machine
• The Machine Age and Beyond
• Notes
• Selected Bibliography
• Index
• Photograph Credits

Designers, architects, manufacturers, and artisans represented include: Gregory Ain, Othmar Ammann, Egmont Arens, W. S. Arrasmith, A. Everett Austin, Bakelite, Lester Beall, Norman Bel Geddes, Thomas Hart Benton, Lucian Bernhard, Charles Biederman, Henry Billings, Bley & Lyman Architects, Ilya Bolotowsky, Margaret Bourke-White, Alexey Brodovitch, Edward G. Budd Company, Ralph Budd, Gordon Buehrig, Charles Burchfield, Alexander Calder, W. J. Campbell, Clarence Carter, A. M. Cassandre, Catalin, 1933 ­ 1934 Century of Progress Exposition ­ Chicago, Rene Chambellan, Fred Chance, Chase Brass and Copper Company, Howard Cheney, Gilmore Clarke, Rene Clarke, Alfred Clauss, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Rex Cole, Aaron Copland, Joseph Cornell, Cowan Pottery, Hart Crane, Paul Cret, Curtis - Wright, George Daub, Stuart Davis, J. L. Delamarre, Charles Demuth, Robert Derrah, Donald Deskey, Deskey ­ Vollmer, Louis Dierra, Donald Dohner, Donald Douglas, Douglas Aircraft Company, Arthur Dove, Henry Dreyfuss, Henry Dubin, Marcel Duchamp, Charles Eames, Harley Earl, Marli Ehrman, Electrolux, Douglas Ellington, Aymar Embury II, Walker Evans, Philip Evergood, Abel Faidy, Charles Falls, Henri Favier, Fellheimer & Wagner Architects, Hugh Ferriss, Howard Fisher, Floyd-Wells Company, Henry Ford, Formica, Fostoria Glass Company, J. Andre Fouilhoux, Paul T. Frankl, Frankl Galleries, Leigh French, Albert Frey, R. Buckminster Fuller, General Electric Company, General Motors Company, Gerth & Gerth, Rube Goldberg, Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, Gorham Manufacturing Company, Arshile Gorky, William Gref, Walter Gropius, William Gropper, Lurelle Guild, Seth Harrison Gurnee, John Gutmann, Gilbert Hall, Oskar Hansen, Harwell Hamilton Harris, Jane Heap, Leon Hermant, Lewis Hine, Pola Hoffmann, Wolfgang Hoffmann (Hoffman), Henry Hohauser, John Holabird, Holabird & Root Architects, Raymond Hood, Edward Hopper, Earl Horter, Nathan George Horwitt, George Howe, The Howell Company, John Mead Howells, Alfonso Iannelli, Gustav Jensen, Philip Johnson, Johnson Furniture Company, Joe Jones, Matthew Josephson, Albert Kahn, Ely Jacques Kahn, Walter Kantack, Mariska Karasz, Clarence Karstadt, Edward McKnight Kauffer, Gordon Kaufmann, George Fred Keck, Paul Kelpe, Frederick Kiesler, Lawrence Kocher, Otto Koller, George Kraetsch, Otto Kuhler, Gaston Lachaise, Thomas Lamb, William Lamb, Fritz Lang, Ibram Lassaw, Lee Lawrie, Le Corbusier, Fernand Leger, Robert Lepper, William Lescaze, Dorothy Liebes, Lightolier, El Lissitzky, Lloyd Manufacturing Company, Paul Lobel, Raymond Loewy, Lord & Taylor, Louis Lozowick, Henry Luce, Warren McArthur, McKenzie - Voorhees & Gmelin, Erik Magnussen, Paul Manship, John Marin, Reginald Marsh, Erich Mendelsohn, Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, Herman Miller Furniture Company, Ralph Modjeski, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Leon Moissieff, Monel Metal, John Morgan, Irving Morrow, Gabriel Moulin, Peter Muller-Munk, Lewis Mumford, Max Munk, Gerald Murphy, Blanche Naylor, George Nelson, Walter Von Nessen, Richard Neutra, Isamu Noguchi, John Northrop, Eliot Noyes, Georgia OšKeefe, Nathaniel Owings, Amedee Ozenfant, Walter Pach, Theodore Parker, Raymond Patten, PAttyn Products Company, Peter Pfisterer, Timothy Pfleuger, Francis Picabia, Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, Public Works Administration (PWA), Charles Purcell, Pyrex, Leo Rackow, Karl Ratliff, Man ray, Ruth Reeves, Winold Reiss, Revere Copper and Brass Company, Lewis Rice, John Gordon Rideout, Diego Rivera, Jose De Rivera, Gilbert Rohde, John Wellborn Root, Rena Rosenthal, Theodore Roszak, Eero Saarinen, Eliel Saarinen, George Sakier, George Santayana, Morton Schamberg, Rudolph Schindler, Eugene Schoen, Paul Schreckengost, Viktor Schreckengost, Edward Schryer, Charles Sheeler, Shreve ­ Lamb & Harmon Architects, Lee Simonson, Joseph Sinel, Niles Spencer, Kemp Starrett, Edward Steichen, Ralph Steiner, David Steinman, Joseph Stella, Steuben Glassworks, Clifford Brooks Stevens, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Durell Stone, John Storrs, William Stout, Paul Strand, Joseph Strauss, Steubenville Pottery, Walter Dorwin Teague, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), Troy Sunshade Company, Allen Tupper True, Joseph Urban, William Van Alen, Harold Van Doren, Willard Van Dyke, John Vassos, Ruth Vassos, Andre Ventre, Kurt Versen, Ralph Walker, Roland Wank, Kem Weber, John Weinrich, W. Archibald Welden, Westinghouse Electric Company, Whiting & Davis Company, William Carlos Williams, Grant Wood, Works Progress Administration (WPA), Frank Lloyd Wright, Russel Wright, Wurdman & Becket Architects, Wurts Brothers, Ypsilanti Reed Furniture Company, Norman Zapf, and Zenith Radio Corporation.

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