Justus Nieland

Happiness by Design

Modernism and Media in the Eames Era

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Produktbeschreibung

A cultural history of modern lifestyle viewed through film and multimedia experiments of midcentury designers Charles and Ray Eames  For the designers Charles and Ray Eames, happiness was both a technical and ideological problem central to the future of liberal democracy. Being happy demanded new things but also a vanguard life in media that the Eameses modeled as they brought film into their design practice. Midcentury modernism is often considered institutionalized, but Happiness by Design casts Eames-era designers as innovative media artists, technophilic humanists, change managers, and neglected film theorists. Happiness by Design offers a fresh cultural history of midcentury modernism through the film and multimedia experiments of Charles and Ray Eames and their peersâ¿Will Burtin, László Moholy-Nagy, and György Kepes, among othersâ¿at a moment when designers enjoyed a new cultural prestige. Justus Nieland traces how, as representatives of the American Centuryâ¿s exuberant material culture, Cold War designers engaged in creative activities that spanned disciplines and blended art and technoscience while reckoning with the environmental reach of media at the dawn of the information age. Eames-era modernism, Nieland shows, fueled novel techniques of culture administration, spawning new partnerships between cultural and educational institutions, corporations, and the state. From the studio, showroom floor, or classroom to the stages of world fairs and international conferences, the midcentury multimedia experiments of Charles and Ray Eames and their circle became key to a liberal democratic lifestyleâ¿and also anticipated the look and feel of our networked present.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 189mm x 236mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 1142g
• ISBN-13: 9781517902049
• ISBN-10: 1517902045
• Artikelnr.: 56028283

Autorenporträt

Justus Nieland is professor of English at Michigan State University. He is author of David Lynch and Feeling Modern: The Eccentricities of Public Life ; coauthor of Film Noir: Hard-Boiled Modernity and the Cultures of Globalization; and coeditor of the Contemporary Film Directors book series.