Title & Author:

Designing tomorrow : America's world's fairs of the 1930s / edited by Robert W. Rydell and Laura Burd Schiavo ; with contributions by Robert Bennett [and others].

Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2010.

Description:

xi, 210 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Notes:
Based on an exhibition held at the National Building Museum, Washington, DC, October 2010-July 2011.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-202) and index.
Foreword / Chase W. Rynd -- Introduction: Making America (more) modern : America's Depression-era World's Fairs / Robert W. Rydell -- "Industry applies" : corporate marketing at a Century of Progress / Lisa D. Schrenk -- Old wine in new bottles : masterpieces come to the fairs / Neil Harris -- Beyond the Midway : Pan-American modernity in the 1930s / Robert A. González -- Modern design goes public : a photo essay / Laura Burd Schiavo -- Designing the modern family at the fairs / Kristina Wilson -- Spectres of social housing, San Diego, 1935 / Matthew Bokovoy -- Pop goes the future : cultural representations of the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair / Robert Bennett -- Coda: Reflections on modernism and World's Fairs : an interview with Richard Guy Wilson.
Text in English.

Summary:

In the midst of the Great Depression, America's World's Fairs of the 1930s gave hope to millions, sustaining the assembled with visions of future of progress. This book celebrates the influence and impact of these international expositions.

ISBN:

9780300149579 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0300149573 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

A Century of Progress Exposition (1933-1934 : Chicago, Ill.)
California Pacific International Exposition (1935-1936 : San Diego, Calif.)
New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.)
Golden Gate International Exposition (1939-1940 : San Francisco, Calif.)
Texas Centennial (1936 : Dallas, Tex.)
Great Lakes Exposition (1936-1937 : Cleveland, Ohio)
Weltausstellung.
Trade shows United States History 20th century Exhibitions.
Salons professionnels États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.
Trade shows United States History Exhibitions. 20th century.
Trade shows
Wereldtentoonstellingen.
Messe.
Moderne.
Design.
Architektur.
United States
Verenigde Staten.
USA.
1933-1940

Form/genre:

Exhibition.
Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition publications.
exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
History
Books.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Rydell, Robert W.
Schiavo, Laura Burd.
Bennett, Robert, 1967-
National Building Museum (U.S.)

America's world's fairs of the 1930s

Holdings:

Location: Library main 269687
Call No.: T395.5.U6 D4 2010
Status: Available